{"quotes":[{"text":"The sun had begun its descent toward the horizon, and the sounds of the carnival played like a familiar song behind me.","author":"Amanda Hocking","tags":["carnival","paranormal","young-adult"],"id":1523,"author_id":"Amanda+Hocking"},{"text":"The principle of laughter and the carnival spirit on which the grotesque is based destroys this limited seriousness and all pretense of an extratemporal meaning and unconditional value of necessity. It frees human consciousness, thought, and imagination for new potentialities. For this reason, great changes, even in the field of science, are always preceded by a certain carnival consciousness that prepares the way.","author":"Mikhail Bakhtin","tags":["carnival","clown","feast","fool","inversion","jester","mysticism","puppet","rabelais","revolution","science","taz"],"id":34219,"author_id":"Mikhail+Bakhtin"},{"text":"Mobile’s reputation as the birthplace of Mardi Gras in North America does not rest solely on the fact that a few half-starved French colonists observed the pre-Lenten feasts here 300 years ago… In 1852, a group of Mobile 'Cowbellians' moved to New Orleans and formed the Krewe of Comus, which is now that larger city’s oldest and most secretive Carnival society.…All of Mobile’s parading societies throw Moon Pies along with beads and doubloons, providing sugary nourishment to the revelers lining the streets.The crowd is very regional, mostly coastal Alabamians. Everyone seems to know each other, and they are always honored and often extra hospitable when they learn that you traveled a long way just to visit *their* Carnival. Late into the evening, silk-gowned debutantes with their white-tie and tail clad escorts who’ve grown weary of their formal balls blend easily with the street crowds….","author":"Gary Bridgman","tags":["alabama","ball","carnival","comus","formal","krewe","lent","mardi-gras","mobile","moon-pies","parades","society"],"id":36820,"author_id":"Gary+Bridgman"},{"text":"Painted faces laughed. It was like a mad carnival where everyone was oblivious, lost in the bliss of chaos, a throng unaware of a bomb planted beneath thefloorboards.","author":"Kelly Creagh","tags":["bomb","carnival","chaos","kelly-creagh","nevermore"],"id":93342,"author_id":"Kelly+Creagh"},{"text":"Get any type of Carnival food equipment like slushie, popcorn, cocktail machines for hire with special discount packages at Smack Amusements an online Australia-based group of company.","author":"Smack Amusements","tags":["carnival","equipment","food"],"id":110677,"author_id":"Smack+Amusements"},{"text":"A ten-year-old Amanda wandering around the sights and sounds of a carnival. Trying to take it all in as such an event was much larger than the backroads of isolated territory from whence she grew up. She could not imagine this many people assembled in one place. It was made more disturbing by the fact none of them seemed familiar. Short for her age, she wandered unnoticed among the crowds and began to feel the first stirrings of fear. The loud talk, the screaming children, the long lines of procession, along with the myriads of odors created a miasma that she wanted to flee. The laughter and the faux expressions of joy on the faces of people, took on the maroon tones of a nightmare. She could imagine underneath the laughter, were horrid screams about to erupt.","author":"Jaime Allison Parker","tags":["carnival","childhood-memory","childhood-phobias","childhood-terror","circus","fever","funhouse","funhouse-mirrors","hallucinations","horror","nightmares","sickness"],"id":149450,"author_id":"Jaime+Allison+Parker"},{"text":"One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more...","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["carnival","supernatural","temptation"],"id":153781,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"A tired man lay down his headin a dusty room so dim,and for so long his wife did shakeand yell to waken him.Meanwhile his thoughts, his dreams, did stirof sandy, red bullfights,of powder-blasts in the airand carnival delights.Yet still his wife was in despairin a dusty room so dim,for she knew death was a whorenot far from tempting him.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["bull-fighters","bull-fights","bulls","carnaval","carnival","carnivals","death","death-dream","despair","dreaming","dying","dying-at-home","fireworks","husband-and-wife","husband-and-wife-relationship","poetry","torredor","whore","whores"],"id":154838,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.","author":"Chaim Potok","tags":["america","carnival","russia","yeshiva"],"id":209622,"author_id":"Chaim+Potok"},{"text":"He looked at me then, his deep golden eyes meeting mine, and I saw a heat in them that I felt reflecting in my own.","author":"Amanda Hocking","tags":["carnival","paranormal","young-adult"],"id":218757,"author_id":"Amanda+Hocking"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}