“In India, where busloads of underprivileged children donned Gandhi costumes to mark the 64th anniversary of the Mahatma’s death, people continued to plug headphones into robots’ crotches in order to have their fortunes told.”
Harper’s Weekly takes a turn for the surreal this week. There’s a whole section about monkeys that didn’t lend itself to effective quoting.
I’m just going to have to quote it anyway, it’s just that good:
“…and American monkey-lovers continued to evade wildlife-control agents. “It’s not what I fought for, to be treated like this,” said Jim Clark, a disabled Vietnam veteran who lives in a motor home on the Texas-Louisiana border with his wife, Donita, and their four capuchins, Tina Marie, Meeko Mae, Sara Jo, and Hayley Suzanne. “So many of us want to disappear,” said Ann Newman, president of the Simian Society of America, “and have our own community where we can safely keep our monkeys.”
