«A Fool, according to the dictionary, is» a person with little or no judgment, common sense, wisdom, etc.; a man formerly kept in the household of a nobleman or king to entertain by acting as a clown.« Central to this definition is the infinitive »to entertain,« which derives from the French »entre« meaning between, and »tenir,« meaning to hold. Thus, its literal definition (and the one which Webster's uses within its etymological brackets) is »to hold between.« In the case of a fool, what is held between is teh attention of the audience, involving a suspension of judgment which inevitably renders the fool's role comedic in nature. For an artist, »to entertain" is to hold his or her audience between two worlds - the private, subjective world of the artist's vision and the commonly held accepted conventions of a more universal, public world... (1983)