The mind simply can’t corral every last detail.īut there were clowns, for sure. Were nips taken from flasks hidden in the clowns’ bloated pantaloons? Who knows? For me, though, nothing more than some milk, thank you much, and some pathetic mish-mash of peas and carrots, I’d guess. Was there cake and punch? Probably, but for the adults only. And my two brothers haven’t been born yet. Just the five of us at my party, counting the clowns. I lash out with my hands but miss every time, like a kitten. Grinning harpies, their balloons thumping somehow silently, swoop down on my highchair, tickle my captive toes, and rub balloons against my head, the clowns’ instruments of torment sticking to the ceiling and my frizzled hair. I see only their simplest, blandest forms, their purpose unclear, until. But my memory refuses to make them and paint them. There must have been colorful shapes: fanciful animals squeezed into creation by the gloved hands of clowns. Perhaps the balloons were roundish only, and maybe they came in black and white only, but I doubt it. The gurgles and the screeches that I surely made are, like good children everywhere in time or place, seen but not heard.Īnd balloons! I remember balloons hovering above, but where they cling, the shapes and colors are lost amid the fluorescence of light and mind. Traveling through time from my grown up vantage, I am seemingly deaf.
For though the year recalled is 1953, talkies haven’t been invented yet. And my parents are slapping their knees, having a laugh over the jesters’ antics, but everyone is mute. The swirl clearing, through my memory’s eyes I see the harlequins’ painted faces, their lips enormous and white, like wings of ghosts, fluttering in sync with a now-silent clown joke. Down the drain goes little Farley Aloysius Nostrum. Strapped to my teetering highchair, I was riding bronco a whirlpool of twitchy light, of portentous abyss. (A tad unsettling, to be honest.) Forgotten is the entwined buzz of voices and light fixtures, but there in that rec room, beneath dangling light bulbs, those two clowns flicker forever and ever. Outstretched like tentacles, long arms glom onto me. The adult strangers, arriving, are only blobs at first: intangible beasts in the distance, bobbing at the top of the stairs, slithering down, down, down, oozing onto the basement floor. Rain pat-patting the windows, the muddied lawn. Just two year old me, and my parents, in our basement rec room. A quiet, modest affair (at first, anyway). That is, my earliest memory is of a birthday party-mine, as a matter of fact-with two clowns anchoring the celebration. Send us feedback about these examples.In the beginning, there were clowns. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'ad infinitum.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
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