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Tony Millionaire's "Sock Monkey" disturbs me for all the right reasons. It's like a children's book, sort of, but I would never give it to a child on the very slight chance that it would cause them to go "wrong." Sporadically published (by Dark Horse), the sixth issue came out last month. It should be sought out by all fans of the delicately perverse...
Like a lot of children's literature, these stories - sometimes spanning two issues - feature beloved objects that have come to life. The titular sock-monkey, named Uncle Gabby, and Mr. Crow, a cloth crow with button eyes, get into adventures by innocently imitating the adult world. The stories read like original Grimm's fairy tales - the ones where Cinderella's stepsisters hack away at their feet with an ax so they will fit the glass slipper. They have a romantic, quaint naïveté mixed with moments of modern existential horror...
Recently, after a monkey named ANDi was born carrying jellyfish genes, George Will predicted that genetic engineering would "end the human story" in a manner more swift and certain than nuclear war. Will's fear was not that genetic monsters or superviruses would destroy us, but that the genetic design of humans--the choice, before conception, to give a child certain traits--would eliminate our respect for human life. Will's concern, and that of many who agree with him, is not only that the consequences of genetic engineering may be harmful, but that the practice itself is a moral...
...scientists injected a human nucleus into a cow egg. The resulting embryo, destroyed early, appeared to be producing human protein, but we have no idea what kind of grotesque hybrid entity would come out of such a marriage. Last October, the first primate containing genes from another species--a monkey with a jellyfish gene--was born. Monkeys today. Tomorrow humans...
...that Harvard wouldn't score. In fact, the third period, despite trailing only 3-0, seemed more a fight to stave off suffering its second consecutive shutout in the opening round at the Beanpot. Only through an excellent individual effort by Kenny Turano did the Crimson not have that monkey to deal with as well...