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Outsider Logic, Part 17: Monkey on the Brain

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There are hundreds and hundreds of pamphlets like the one below in the store’s Outsider Collection–honest work that somehow has gone a little astray, or over-the-side, or reached too high, or fell too low, or some such thing. Sometimes I read in the work a little, and sometimes not–the present pamphlet is in the later category, which means I really have no idea what the author is channeling, except that I know it is fairly evangelically religious and capitalist. I don’t know why the human head profile is on the cover, and I also don’t know what it means. But no doubt it was something encapsulating, something representative to the work as a whole, otherwise it (probably) wouldn’t be there. If I was 25 years old I might stop to read the 193-page work a little; but I’m not, so I won’t.

(P.S.: the covers are velveteen.)

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