Jul
16
2006

quote of the day: simian death-jig

But other pitches were not as well-crafted. For instance, there was this guy who smiled weakly and asked us, with a halfhearted shrug, “Monkey dance?” Our eyes followed the leash in his hand, which led to the neck of a monkey. The most jaded, world-weary monkey I’ve ever seen. The Lou Reed of monkeys. He looked like he was about to sit down, pull out his works, and shoot a big syringe full of heroin into his paw. Needless to say, we declined the monkey dance — which I’m guessing would have been some sort of sad, simian death-jig.

- From “Trying Really Hard to Like India” by Seth Stevenson

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