Thinking that Monkey Puzzle needed a Mission Statement or some declared “Monkey Puzzle Vision,” I’ve been racking my brain to come up with something that appropriately fit. It’s been almost two years and I’ve come up with nothing more than howls, jeers, and seething condemnations. Then about a month ago I stumbled upon this shining bit of wisdom from Henry Miller – behold The Monkey Puzzle Vision:
“If now and then we encounter pages that explode, pages that wound and sear, that wring groans and tears and curses, know that they come from a [zine] with [its] back up, a [zine] whose only defenses left are [its] words and [its] words are always stronger than the lying, crushing weight of the world, stronger than all the racks and wheels which the cowardly invent to crush out the miracle of personality. If any [person] ever dared to translate all that is in [their] heart, to put down what is really [their] experience, what is truly [their] truth, I think then the world would go to smash, that it would be blown to smithereens and no god, no accident, no will could ever again assemble the pieces, the atoms, the indestructible elements that have gone to make up the world.”
Amen,
Nate Jordon
Wow. If any [person] ever dared…