“Between the zist and the zest” means to try to please everyone, to be indecisive...
A good starting point for two disoriented acrobats who are suddenly overcome by terrible doubt. Is this the right move, the right move? Charlie Chaplin's silent and burlesque cinema is not far away, absurd situations jostle for position, misunderstandings follow one another in a zany fashion, because you have to keep going no matter what. So you invent, you drift, you bounce back. And you laugh...!
