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Running Away to the ‘Circus’ in my Sixties

Volunteering at the Green Man Festival - August Re-stack

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Elizabeth Shanley
Aug 28, 2026
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How do you mathematically calculate the value of a worker whose contribution to the work force is to dance upon rolling caskets, stand upon bottles, catch knives and balls, twirl hand-basins, ride upon anything, jump over everything, and stick at nothing. You cannot calculate the value of such a thing and you ought not to try. That does not mean that it…

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