From: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org (Monkey Digest) To: monkey-digest@valinor.eldar.org Subject: Monkey Digest V1 #39 Reply-To: monkey@valinor.eldar.org Sender: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org Errors-To: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org Precedence: bulk Monkey Digest Saturday, June 21 1997 Volume 01 : Number 039 In this issue: Re: [monkey] Vacuity vs Acuity [monkey] FW: Season 2, Episode 01 - "Catfish, Saint, And The Shape Changer" [monkey] FW: Episode Summary 2.39- "At the Top of the Mountain" [monkey] Monkey Music Re: [monkey] Monkey Memories UPDATED! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:19:36 +1000 From: "Clare O'Farrell" Subject: Re: [monkey] Vacuity vs Acuity Hi all I just got back from a week long conference at Longreach in Outback Qld - it took 24 hours to get there by train and another 24 hours to get back phew!! - not quite as long as Monkey's 16 year pilgrimage but still!! Chris says > There's a poem about > this at http://www.lafayette.edu/~hahna/home/monkey.html >I accept that Monkey is 'son aware of vacuity'. >And thanks for finding the poem Clare. It was great. I really liked the poem too - it has a very nice feeling about it. Clare *********************************************************** Clare O'Farrell email:c.ofarrell@qut.edu.au web page: http://www.qut.edu.au/edu/cpol/foucault/ 'Let battle commence. Wine and.... bananas!' *********************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 05:20:41 PDT From: "Howell Parry" Subject: [monkey] FW: Season 2, Episode 01 - "Catfish, Saint, And The Shape Changer" Some of you might be interested in this summary by Chris Hadgis (chrish@mincom.com). It will go up on my Monkey! web site (http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/8153/) in the next few days. Howell - -------------- Season 2, Episode 01 - "Catfish, Saint, And The Shape Changer" The pilgrims are walking through a land dominated by a large active volcano. They are arguing again, and Monkey calls Pigsy "totally and utterly illiterate". Pigsy : "You said I was illegitimate. You better remember some of us aren't just walking statues. I was born in heaven" Monkey: "In a pig sty" They see a girl praying. Monkey thinks she might be a monster, but Pigsy rushes over to her regardless. She answers a few of his questions, but when she looks up, she reveals she has no face. She runs away and the disciples split up to chase her. No trace of her is found. Monkey: "When we catch it, I'll bash its face in" Sandy : "Stupid, it didn't have a face" Pigsy is swaggering around, pretending he is not afraid of the monster. Sandy, with Monkey sitting on his shoulders, sneaks up behind him and scares him. The volcano erupts and there is an earthquake. In the village, the people are praying. Tripitaka offers his services to the headman. He says there have always been earthquakes here. They are caused by the quarrel of two demons. Thirty years ago, San-Chung came and quieted the devils. Tripitaka knows of him. San-Chung gave up his journey to protect them. The headman directs them to the temple. Tripitaka asks San-Chung why he gave up his quest. San-Chung says that he couldn't continue while there was so much suffering there. A catfish monster is causing the earthquakes. It lives in the lake at the base of the volcano. San-Chun's prayers seem to quiet it. Monkey asks about the face monster. San-Chung tells him it is a shapechanger, and that it has taken the form of one of the pilgrims. They accuse each other until Sandy says they were never apart. But they were when they were chasing the face monster. The disciples try to figure out which of them is the face monster. Pigsy thinks it is Tripitaka because he was alone when they were chasing the monster. They confront him about it and he denies it. Tripitaka says they can still succeed if they all trust each other. Unfortunately they don't, and eventually the group splits up. Sandy goes to down the lake where the catfish monster lives. The huge catfish appears and swallows Sandy. He cries out to Monkey for help. Monkey runs down to the lake and finds Sandy's staff, but no Sandy. He jumps into the lake to look for him. He is soon found by the catfish and he swims into its mouth. San-Chung tries to get Tripitaka to stay and succeed him, especially now that the disciples have left him. Tripitaka refuses, saying his mission is too important, and rides away. San-Chung mutters that his monsters will stop Tripitaka from leaving. There is another earthquake. San-Chung tells the villagers he will pray. He enters a house and finds the catfish monster, in human form, sitting at the fire-place. The monster is upset because San-Chung failed to deliver him Tripitaka as promised. He strikes the ground with his club and causes another tremor. San-Chung has been sacrificing priests to the monster. The monster reveals that he has in fact eaten the disciples. Inside the stomach of the catfish, Monkey is looking for Sandy. He opens a 'door' and finds Sandy flirting with a girl. She is a fairy - a spirit of the blue pool. She says the lake was lovely until the catfish monster came and swallowed her. She has been inside him for over a thousand years. She conjures up a meal for them, which Monkey and Sandy enjoy until she tells them it is made from things the catfish has swallowed. The catfish monster still wants to eat Tripitaka. He drinks some red wine. In his stomach, Monkey, Sandy, and the fairy get drunk. "I'm only drinking wine, but it feels like spirits" [Catfish] The fairy says they should have a party and conjures up a gramophone. The catfish becomes sick. Meanwhile, the party is in full swing as they dance to the Monkey Magic theme. They hear a voice - it's Pigsy. He was swallowed two days ago. The fairy says she lost him because Pigsy wanted to do rude things. Monkey realizes that the face monster had become Pigsy. The face monster, still disguised as Pigsy, meets up with Tripitaka. Tripitaka thinks they should wait for the others, but 'Pigsy' says they are unlikely to return. Tripitaka is glad to have found one of his disciples. 'Pigsy' gets them lost in the forest. Tripitaka then realises that the face monster has assumed Pigsy's form. There is an avalanche, and as they look up, they see the catfish monster. Tripitaka is captured. Tripitaka has been tied up and the monsters argue over who should kill him. San-Chung appears and Tripitaka is relieved, but San-Chung has arrived to mediate the argument between the two demons. He decides the monsters should play a game, with Tripitaka going to the winner. The disciples are finally reunited. Pigsy wants to stay because there is plenty of food and drink. Monkey says they should try and escape but the others remind him they don't know how to. Monkey says they should try for Tripitaka. Meanwhile, the game continues. The fairy says she knows a way out - the back passage. The others decide against it. The catfish monster reveals that San-Chung had been forced into helping them because they were powerful monsters. The face monster tries to cheat, but San-Chung stops him. It appears as though the face monster is winning. The disciples and the fairy are wandering throught the catfish. Monkey: "Maybe we are getting near the lungs." Sandy : "Come on Monkey. Fish don't have lungs. Every child in school knows this." Monkey: "We're not at school, are we." The face monster wins the game. The catfish monster is upset and challenges the face monster to a fight to the death. They catfish monster beats the face monster back and advances on Tripitaka. As he reaches him, he starts to choke. Now in his throat, Sandy suggests they tickle him. The catfish monster starts to laugh, but this prevents them from escaping. Pigsy suggest that Monkey turn them into foreign bodies so that the monster spits them out. He does this, and the catfish monster soon spits out three balls which become Monkey, Sandy, and Pigsy. They fight the catfish monster. Monkey beats him and he turns into a regular-size catfish. The face monster makes a run for it but is stopped by Pigsy. He changes into Pigsy. Monkey goes over to them and tries to find out which of them is the real Pigsy. Monkey is about to hit the real Pigsy, but at the last moment turns and strikes the face monster which turns into a frog. San-Chung has been hurt in the fight. He asks Monkey to kill him. Monkey is about to oblige when Tripitaka stops him. San-Chung has compromised with the forces of evil and believes he is doomed to Hell. Tripitaka says he will fetch the scriptures and that San-Chung should wait there for him. The fairy has been released and the lake is returning to normal. She waves goodbye to the pilgrims, calling Monkey by name. This makes the others jealous. The pilgrims continue their journey. Notes * Alliteration: 'Is he still simple Sandy walking into deadly danger' * During the party, we can see strobe lights in the background. * When the fairy says Pigsy is lost, we see him wandering around a maze. There is even a cow hide on the floor, presumably from an earlier catfish snack. * The game they play looks like a cross between chess and checkers. * We don't actually see the fairy being released from the catfish, but she is there at the end of the episode. - --------------------------------------------------------- Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 05:24:06 PDT From: "Howell Parry" Subject: [monkey] FW: Episode Summary 2.39- "At the Top of the Mountain" Here's an episode summary by Nick McCarthy This is the Wasp Witch episode that provoked lots of discussion a few weeks ago. Howell - ------- MONKEY EPISODE SUMMARY ====================== Season 2, Episode 39: "At the Top of the Mountain" The pilgrims are travelling through rural countryside when Pigsy stops suddenly and says he can hear a woman crying. Monkey can't hear anything but sure enough, after listening for several seconds, he too can hear the faint sound of a woman's anguish. Monkey and Pigsy go off to investigate, followed closely by Tripitaka and Sandy. In a clearing, Pigsy discovers a young village girl attempting to hang herself with a piece of rope. He tries to stop her but he she pushes him away. Monkey immediately slaps the woman savegly in the face. "She's hysterical, I'm supposed to hit her!" [Monkey] He then slaps Pigsy for the fun of it! Tripitaka is shocked by the woman's suicidal tendancies and begs her to explain why she is so upset. The woman says that she can no longer live with herself because she accidentally killed her own daughter, Qui-Ye. Tripitaka is certain that it was an accident because a mother's love would prevent her from deliberately killing her own child. In a nearby village, the pilgrims return the distraught young woman to her family. An elderly Grandma thanks them for their kindness and concern and tells them how the mother killed her own baby. In a flashback, the Grandma explains that a witch with a magic whip came to the village. The witch flies down from a mountain on her horse drawn chariot cloud, in search of young children to kidnap and kill. After overpowering a frightened group of villagers, the witch stalks the village streets, listening for the tell tale signs of young sobbing. A group of mothers are hiding in a house nearby, terrified of being discovered by the witch. Qui-Ye, the baby of the now suicidal woman, begins to cry and the others beg the woman to keep her quiet. In an act of desperation, the mother covers the mouth of her child firmly to stop her sobbing. Luckily, the witch does not discover the group and leaves. All the mothers are relieved, except the young woman who painfully discovers that she has accidentally killed her own child by suffocating her. The Grandma goes on to explain that the witch has kidnapped 100 or more babies and she lives in a remote moutain hideaway called Kijo which is too steep to climb. She says that only someone who is magic could hope to fight the witch. The pilgrims are lead into a courtyard by the Grandma, who shows them a well which is apparently dry. Monkey disputes this, saying that he can see water gleaming at the bottom. Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy lift up a bucket from the well. Sandy choses this moment to make a quip: Sandy: "Pigsy was telling me of his latest invention- dehydrated water" Pigsy: "How does it work?" Sandy: "You just add water" Monkey tastes the water which is salty. He finds this strange because the well is 1000 miles from the sea. The grandma reveals that many years ago, the spring that filled the well dried up. A woman who's child was stolen by the witch became mad with despair and her tears were so great, that they filled the well and eventually, she threw herself down the well. Tripitaka is appalled by such a sad story and begins to pray to try and help the situation. The sad moment causes Pigsy and Sandy to reminisce about their own mothers. Pigsy says that when he fought with his pig brothers for every mouthful of food, his mother always took his side. Monkey is unmoved and slightly sickened by Pigsy's sentimental memories. "She petted her dear little Pigsy I dare say, mother's darling! What would I know though? The only mother I ever had was a cold hard rock!" [Monkey] Back at the village home where the pilgrims are staying, Monkey feels slightly saddened about not having a mother. Tripitaka thinks that he is sulking in self pity and tries to console Monkey by saying that he is special and unique because his mother is the whole world. "Only you, who were born out of the four elements, could hope to understand many things that others never will. Be happy that your mother is earth, fire, water" [Tripitaka] Monkey takes heart in this thought and begins to think about what it would be like if Mother Earth was a real person. "I wonder if she minds me walking all over her? Of course you don't, you're glad you can support me, aren't you mother dearest?" [Monkey] Monkey is then amazed to see the image of a beautiful and distinguised woman appear before his very eyes, only to fade seconds afterwards. He believes that the image is the manifestation of Mother Earth. The next morning, Pigsy and Sandy raise village support and build a series of traps in the hope of catching the witch, who they are expecting to arrive later that day. Pigsy has taken on a leadership role and gets all the village men to line up so that he can inspect them. Being exceptionally lazy, Pigsy gets a group of villagers to dig a large hole in order to trap the witch. Whilst they are digging Pigsy jokes: "Let me know if you strike oil. We need jokes to keep spirits high" Whilst another group of villagers build steaks and weapons to fight the witch, Sandy paces around giving a long and hypocritial lecture on the importance of everyone working to drive the witch away. He says that nobody should be standing around and talking, despite the fact that he is doing just that! Monkey summons his cloud in order to fly to the witch's hideaway. He discovers the witch mountain, Kijo: a giant purple, serpent-like structure surrounded by a misty lake. Upon his arrival, Monkey turns into a horse-fly so that he can enter Kijo undetected. Once inside, he is surprised to see children playing happily. He deduces that these must be the witch's own children because she is playing affectionately with them. The witch's youngest daughter, Ido, sees the horse-fly and picks "Monkey" up. She asks if she can play with it but the witch says no because horse-flies bite. She tells Ido to take the horse-fly outside and stand on it! The child does so. Once outside, an injured and dazed Monkey returns to his normal form, complaining of a severe backache. He is shocked to see a basket filled with the skulls of dead children, which he prays over before returning to the village. Monkey reports the news to Tripitaka, saying that the witch has children of her own and yet she murders other people's. The Grandma believes that the witch is a wasp spirit who needs children to lay her eggs in. Monkey wants to fight the witch but Tripitaka doesn't want him to resort to violence. Tripitaka: "No violence Monkey!" Monkey: Oh, okay Master, no violence. I'll kill that witch as gently as possible" In the village streets Pigsy is still preparing his traps for the witch. A big hole has been dug and filled with spears. Monkey and Sandy then arrive and Pigsy is worried that Monkey will fall into the hole, so he runs to stop him. However, Pigsy falls in himself! Monkey and Sandy are very amused and make jokes, much to Pigsy's annoyance. "We could have some crackling or a pork kebab perhaps?, ready skewered!" [Monkey] A villager alerts Monkey that the witch has arrived and Monkey and Sandy run off to confront her. Pigsy is left in the hole to holler cowardly. The wasp witch kicks down a baricade and fights off a horde of villagers, whipping them with her magic whip. Monkey and Sandy fight her and they are soon joined by Pigsy, but the witch manages to overpower the three pilgrims. She flies off in her chariot cloud and is pursued by Monkey. The wasp spirit breaks into a nearby house and steals a child from it's mother. Monkey tries to stop her but she threatens the child so he is powerless to act. The mother is taken into care by Tripitaka and The Grandma but she quickly goes insane at the thought of losing her baby and parades up and down the street in a fit of mad psychosis. Monkey and Sandy try to formulate a plan to effectively fight off the wasp witch and Sandy reveals that Pigsy has gone into the witch's mountain disguised as a pig. Monkey believes that he'll be caught for sure. In the moutain, Pigsy is taunted by the witch's children who wish to have roast pork for dinner. The witch agrees and tells the children to tie the piglet up. Pigsy, still in disguise, is tied up in a room with all the kidnapped children from the village. However, the rope securing him is not fastened properly and he escapes. Pigsy reports back to the others and tells them that the witch's eggs turn into grubs which then turn into her own children. Tripitaka asks the others to leave whilst he meditates. Whilst he prays, Buddha appears in the sky above and asks Tripitaka what his problem is. The priest says he is facing a dilemma over whether or not to use violence against the witch. Buddha says that "she" will deal with the problem. Buddha appears in Kijo and takes the witch's youngest child, Ido. "She" gives the child to the pilgrims and asks them to guard her. When the witch cannot find her Ido, she becomes worried and angry and believes that Monkey has kidnapped her. She flies to the village in a fit of nervous rage. Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy are waiting to fight the wasp witch once more. She reveals two large swords, labelling them as her "sting", which she uses to fight off the three pilgrims. "With the strength of a mother's love, the wasp witch fought free" [The Narrator] The witch discovers her daughter with Tripitaka. Buddha appears again and a dagger materializes on the ground near Ido. Buddha orders Tripitaka to to kill the child with the dagger but he refuses. The wasp witch begs for her child's safety but Buddha then uses a hypnotic force to make Monkey pick up the dagger and stab the child. Buddha absolves Monkey from any blame. The wasp witch is devastated by the death of the child, knowing now what it is like to grieve over a loved one. She rejects Buddha and stabs herself and dies. Monkey is stunned by Buddha's apparent lack of compassion, however, flower petals then fall from the sky and the witch and her child are brought back to life. The witch is overjoyed that her child is alive once more and thanks Buddha. Buddha cungers up a pomegranite, labelling it as the symbol of fertility and all things that need to live. The witch makes a pact to reform her ways. That night, Monkey again imagines what it would be like to have a real mother of his own. He contemplates what life would be like having the witch as a mother and decides that it would be better than nothing. Tripitaka asks Monkey to go and tell the others that they are ready to leave. The Grandma remarks to Tripitaka about how kind and polite Monkey is. Tripitaka tells the Grandma that Monkey is feeling lonely because he doesn't have a mother. The Grandma says that in her heart, she will think of Monkey as her own son. The pilgrims leave the village and set off on their journey once more. They are farewelled by the witch and her children who wave from high on a nearby mountain top. "Buddha does not judge. We judge ourselves" [The Narrator] - --------------------------------------------------------- Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 05:52:32 PDT From: "Howell Parry" Subject: [monkey] Monkey Music Check out my new Monkey Music page: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/8153/music.html It gives info about the "Magic Monkey" CD, where it can be ordered on the Internet, and all the song lyrics. Howell - --------------------------------------------------------- Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:34:45 +0000 From: "Semprini" Subject: Re: [monkey] Monkey Memories UPDATED! > > I suppose it would be possible in Perl though. > > Suppose? SUPPOSE? Erm... oh.... erm... > It can be done in Perl (as can almost anything ) ...oK... but not by me... > > Certainly if someone else wants to write one in Perl I could > > probably get it up and running. > > My script works like this: You've written one already?! > The questions and answers are in a single file, one question per line, > with the answer on the line following the question. When the question > and answer are displayed, the browser will take care of any word > wrapping. > > The script will print a question and its answer. > > It shouldn't take too much hacking to get it to work with a web page. > > If you are interested, I can send you the scripts (I have different > versions of the one script) and we can see if we can get one working. Well, you're welcome to if you like and I'll see what I can do. Failing that I think I *might* be able to get ActiveX CGI scripts working from my web site with a bit of tinkering. ActiveX looks dead easy. But I could be (and probably am) wrong. As usual. Pah! John .oOo. "hello" (c) 1997 mailto:semprini@buttle.com (All Rights Reserved) http://freeweb.redcat.org.uk/~semprini/ (for Heaven's sake, go there..) ------------------------------ End of Monkey Digest V1 #39 *************************** ----------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the Monkey Mailing List digest list, send mail to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe monkey-digest To send a message to the list, send mail to: monkey-digest@valinor.eldar.org If you have any problems or questions, send mail to: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org For lots more information and news about "Monkey", check out the Monkey! web site: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/8153/