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Monkey Miss Her Now (2004)


Cover image & Design: Raewyn Alexander (2004)


(August 25) Monkey Miss Her Now & Everything a Teenage Girl Should Know. ISBN 0-476-00182-X. Auckland: Danger Publishing, 2004. 138 pp.
    Monkey Miss Her Now [Mon coeur mis à nu] (by Jack Ross)

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Nature and her Ape, Art, according to the Adepts
Robert Fludd: Utriusque Cosmi Maioris et Minoris Historia (Oppenheim, 1617)



Je fais tous les efforts possibles pour être sec. Je veux imposer silence à mon cœur qui croit avoir beaucoup à dire. Je tremble toujours de n’avoir écrit qu’un soupir, quand je crois avoir noté une vérité.
– Stendhal, De l’Amour [1]


[I’m making every possible effort to be dry. I want to muzzle my heart, which thinks it has a lot to say. I’m nagged by the suspicion that all I’ve done is transcribe a sigh, when I thought I was establishing a truth.]


Mon cœur
Monkey
mis à nu [2]
Miss Her Now

L’amour-passion … peut se comparer à une route singulière, escarpée, incommode, qui commence à la vérité parmi les bosquets charmants, mais bientôt se perd entre des rochers taillés à pic, dont l’aspect n’a rien de flatteur pour les yeux vulgaires.
– Stendhal, De l’Amour [3]


[Passionate love can be compared to a metal road, precipitous, ungraded, which begins in a peaceful reserve, but soon turns to hairpin bends and potholes, unbeguiling to the common eye.]

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John Amos Comenius, Orbis Sensualium Pictus: A Facsimile of the First English Edition of 1659. 1st ed. 1658. Introduction by John Sadler. The Juvenile Library (London: Oxford University Press, 1968)


Everything A Teenage Girl
Should Know [4]

But the ground is harder than ice, and we only have our paws.
– Neil Gaiman, A Game of You [5]

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Jack Ross: Monkey Miss Her Now (2004)


Blurb:
Jack Ross continues to create work that is inventive, evocative, droll, and highly distinctive. His new book is a mosaic of scenes and styles that interact in unexpected ways. No reader is going to forget the ‘strange day at the language school,’ the rediscovery of ‘New Zealand Vorticist poet Walter E. Clarke’, or the strange collection of ghosts and 19th century pornographers who populate ‘Everything a Teenage Girl Should Know.’ Once a character has walked out the door, he or she can end up anywhere in space, time or language. Ross’s writing manages to be both adventurous and accessible. He has an uncommon way of mixing humour and melancholy. Any but the most impatient or literal reader should find this a book rich in discoveries.

- Roger Horrocks [6]


Notes:

[1] Stendhal, De l’Amour. 1st ed. 1822. Ed. Michel Crouzet. GF. (Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1965), 50.

[2] Charles Baudelaire, Mon cœur mis à nu [My heart laid bare]. L’Oeuvre. Ed. P. Schneider. Les Portiques, 16 (Paris: Le Club Français du Livre, 1955), 1447-79.

[3] Stendhal, De l’Amour. 1st ed. 1822. Ed. Michel Crouzet. GF. (Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1965), 241.

[4] Dr. John F. Knight, Everything a Teenage Girl Should Know. (Warburton, Victoria, Australia: Signs Publishing Company, c.1970).

[5] Neil Gaiman, A Game of You. 1991-92. The Sandman Library V: Issues #32-37 (New York: Vertigo/DC Comics, 1993), 99.

[6] Roger Horrocks, Launch speech for Monkey Miss Her Now (Auckland: George Fraser Gallery, 24 October 2004).



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