Help Replace Mind control With Truth in Art

Strength and dignity are her clothing...

Proverbs 31:25

Author's Note: I have been enjoined from sharing the details of my true romance adventure until such time that the other party is prepared to present her perspective on the affair arrangement...

Four days after I arrived in Poland, the largely Catholic country was celebrating Corpus Christi, complete with solemn processions down the street. Three days later I had made a solemn vow that if given the chance to express it, I would show love to a woman I had only just met.

As an artist inspired by a young woman's struggle with self-esteem and bulimia, body acceptance had always featured prominently in my aesthetic. Having recently discovered naturism and its mantra of body acceptance in the United States, I was eager to explore the style and philosophy of naturist clubs and the beauty of naturist campsites in Europe. By a trick of fate, I found myself first in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. Margo's home.

I had grown up in America. Land of opportunity. I came of age in the booming 90s when everything was possible. She had grown up in Poland. She had come of age at a time when the Soviets were making sure that there wasn't even anything to eat in the country. I couldn't even properly translate the word "opportunity" into Polish.

Despite the cops in Vienna. Despite the rain in Veržej. Despite getting lost in Italy. Despite parting at Soest. Despite that night in Amsterdam. Despite our fight in Lisieux. Despite the storm in the Bois de la Roche. Despite that terrible morning outside Collonges. Despite the long road to Pielenhofen, we came back safe and sound and most importantly we were happy. We had started to learn how to listen. We had left the devils of the road behind and the devils ahead seemed just a little bit smaller. We had started to open up.

One of Margo's pictures from our trip across Europe. — 6,000 miles across Europe with a complete stranger
**Day 32**
8/20/2011
⛹ 1༜♊²⁵/₂₄♀
Camping Omaha Beach
Vierville Sur Mer, France
THE DISAPPEARING WOMAN, THE DISAPPEARING MAN...
a collection of modern art prints and posters
During our trip across Europe, Margo very bravely opened up to me and to the camera. It was a difficult thing to do considering the scars that she carries. I wanted to share with the world her often joyful, often sad, often angry but always liberating experience except that the Internet is full of pictures of naked women and men and full of trolls who abuse them.
I realized that what I really need to point out is not the openness that Margo and I cultivated between ourselves, but the darkness that continues to surround us. When I censor nudity, I do so in a way that does not compromise the integrity of the human body. In censoring the photographs that Margo and I took during our trip, I was quick to notice that in those pictures where Margo was at her most open, at her most unguarded and most relaxed, in a word, when she was herself and basking in the sun I was forced to blacken her completely.
Why does our society drive people into darkness? Why can we not accept ourselves as we are? Why can we not accept our bodies? Have we truly become eunuchs? Or are we capable of defying the sickness that pits us against each other? Together we could conquer the devils that abuse us.
Whether you enjoy being nude or not, whether you've been photographed nude or not, but especially if, for you, like for Margo, it's something you never thought you would do, consider submitting your own photograph to be published in a censored manner as a form of protest against the ubiquitous presence of the human body on the internet, naked or not, that is published and duplicated ad infinitum without context and without regard for the identity or the needs of the individual being depicted.

Previous Image — 6,000 miles across Europe with a complete stranger
**Day 32**
8/20/2011
⛹ 1༜♊²⁵/₂₄♀
Camping Omaha Beach
Vierville Sur Mer, France
THE DISAPPEARING WOMAN, THE DISAPPEARING MAN...
a collection of modern art prints and posters
During our trip across Europe, Margo very bravely opened up to me and to the camera. It was a difficult thing to do considering the scars that she carries. I wanted to share with the world her often joyful, often sad, often angry but always liberating experience except that the Internet is full of pictures of naked women and men and full of trolls who abuse them.
I realized that what I really need to point out is not the openness that Margo and I cultivated between ourselves, but the darkness that continues to surround us. When I censor nudity, I do so in a way that does not compromise the integrity of the human body. In censoring the photographs that Margo and I took during our trip, I was quick to notice that in those pictures where Margo was at her most open, at her most unguarded and most relaxed, in a word, when she was herself and basking in the sun I was forced to blacken her completely.
Why does our society drive people into darkness? Why can we not accept ourselves as we are? Why can we not accept our bodies? Have we truly become eunuchs? Or are we capable of defying the sickness that pits us against each other? Together we could conquer the devils that abuse us.
Whether you enjoy being nude or not, whether you've been photographed nude or not, but especially if, for you, like for Margo, it's something you never thought you would do, consider submitting your own photograph to be published in a censored manner as a form of protest against the ubiquitous presence of the human body on the internet, naked or not, that is published and duplicated ad infinitum without context and without regard for the identity or the needs of the individual being depicted.

Definition of Monkey

The word monkey is fetishized to mean a creature unworthy of being associated with. As an artifact it refers to another species of primate. It can also refer to a person or to an act associated with the behavior of this primate.

Common use of monkey in illustrative example sentences

Man did not descend from a monkey.
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Stop acting like a monkey. Get serious for once.
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I have yet to come up with a third sentence using the word monkey.
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I have yet to come up with a fourth sentence using the word monkey.
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I have yet to come up with a fifth sentence using the word monkey.
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I have yet to come up with a sixth sentence using the word monkey.
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I have yet to come up with a seventh sentence using the word monkey.
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Usage of Monkey in Michal's Fiction Corpus

Michal's Fiction Corpus of Acceptance Literature (FiCAL) is presented under the Bare Bottom imprint. It is currently comprised of six bodies of work, each representing a different pillar of culture and incorporating a wide variety of writhing styles.

If you're wondering...

How do I use this?

Just click on a title to see examples of the word "monkey" being used in a particular work. You'll stay on the same spot on the page, only the Table of Contents will disappear. To get back to the Table of Contents just click next to the image of the Bare Bottom imprint where it says "Back to Usage of Monkey: Table of Contents."“And...?”

The Table of Frequency and the Table of Collocation provide numerical information about how many times the word monkey appears in its original or modified form and with which words. It can help to give you an idea of how a word is used and in what contexts.“Ok.”

Why a Fiction Corpus?

The popular understanding of the word "fiction" and its complement "non-fiction" is a reflection of the cultural influence of a classification system. The Dewey Decimal System is responsible for separating "fiction" from all other work and categorizing it by author's name. This has influenced the popular idea of fiction as a narrative that tends to be "untrue" and the product of an individual's fantasy, a bias compounded by modern art's century-long obsession with abstraction, surrealism and self-expression.“So...?”

My idea of fiction rests on the idea that art doesn't have to be factual to be a true reflection of our existence. Adam and Eve didn't have to exist as two individuals 700 generations ago for them to be true portraits of two human beings trying to work together.“And...?”

The Bible is a Fiction Corpus. It is a body of writing that isn't overly concerned with facts and yet its words carry weight. It was written by many different authors living in different places with different audiences in mind, yet everyone gleans something from it.“Right...”

In preparing my fiction corpus, I have striven to see the world through the eyes of others. Through the eyes of my Adams and Eves I hope that you too will glean some truth about our existence. At the very least you will learn some more about how one man can use the English language.“Ok.”

Who are you, Michal?

I'm just a guy who makes art. And if you're interested in making a solid investment in an aesthetic that supports our present and future welfare, then I will help you look for something that you can buy.“How...?”

Everybody makes. Everybody sells. Some people know how to protect their interests. Some better than others. Few people know how to listen. Listening to somebody means considering their interests as if they were your own. Going out and doing something to satisfy another person's interest is how we build a strong economy. Without a strong economy, democracy collapses.“And...?”

Buying 4Occupy is buying for democracy. Don't give your money to somebody who's ruining it. There's no such thing as cheap democracy, quick democracy, or easy democracy. There's good, solid, complete democracy and the tyranny of feudalism. Let's not mix the two. Let's not buy everything on the cheap. Let's not create another tyrant and enslave ourselves because it was easier not to think about what we were doing. Let's protect our interests. Let's listen.“Ok.”

Who's really behind this site?

Have you ever been to one of those post-it-yourself retail websites where there's a really attractive top-seller ready to give you tips on how you can be a top-seller too?“Uh...”

Have you ever been to a "job" interview where you sit in a line, walk through one door, get hired as a contractor and walk out another door, so that the other applicants don't realize that everyone's getting "hired" to work in the same market?“Maybe...”

The internet is full of people who are ready to exploit your ignorance. They are people who want to make money at the expense of our economy. They are cheats.“And...?”

I, Michal, am behind this site. Not some fat plutocrat exploiting my image. I like to do things the right way. I like to work with people who take the time to do things right.“Why...?”

I used to work for a company that didn't do things the right way. My labor was exploited because of mismanagement. That company was the United States Postal Service, an independent agency of the United States Government that is ultimately controlled by Congress. I'm mad because if the Federal Government can exploit labor, who is going to stop every other cheat from doing it?“Labor Unions...?”

Don't say labor unions. I went to my labor union and they did nothing. They ignored me because labor unions aren't democracies. Holding a free and fair election for a "representative" once in a blue moon does not equal people ruling. Democracy means open government. It means we the public need to accept the hard work. It's the only way to secure liberty and equality.“Ok.”

What's the difference between use and usage?

Definition-wise, not much. But the -age suffix is ultimately French in origin and with most things French, at least in American eyes, the immediate thought is that of something precious and arcane whose value should be judged very carefully. This is in contrast to the word France, which is associated with a beautiful place. Thus people in France or from France are beautiful, warm, kind people. Generous even. Unlike French people who suck. Unless you're frenching, in which case you're only sometimes sucking.“And...?”

Along those lines, usage means you're in bed. Use means you're just heavy petting. Also notice that common people, like common words, get used...whereas "proper" things make "appearances." Whether or not you are being exploited is a different story. Exploitation is what happens when somebody uses you or your property without listening to you. Listening is what happens when you consider another person's needs as if they were your own. You don't have to satisfy those needs. All you need to do is consider them. So many of us can't even do that.“So...?”

Help stop exploitation. Buy 4occupy. Buy a better world. Whether or not you feel you can afford to buy art, consider joining my protest. I want to guarantee every working man and every working mother on this planet a 15-day universal holiday. But I can't. Only we can do that. We have to work together. We have to accept the idea that everyone deserves time for himself and we need to build that time into a new kind of calendar. We have to give peace it's own day. We have to make love something you can't avoid. We have to make even the most miserly cold-hearted capitalist among us say that he cashed his check on Love Your Neighbor Day. There won't be any other way to say it once the Acceptance Calendar is widely adopted.“Ok.”

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Monkey, a morphological approach

I have yet to make a morphological analysis of the word monkey.

That doesn't mean it's not high on my list.

Table of Frequency for the Word "Monkey."
This table lists in descending order the total number of times that the word monkeyand any of its morphological derivations appears in the Fiction Corpus, along with a breakdown of frequency by title, the respective rank of each word in the complete list of all words in the Corpus, as calculated both densely and competitively, as well as the percent increase in frequency of the word over the frequency of the next lowest rank in the complete list.
Percent Increase over next rank	RANK		WORD	Frequency
	RANK			TOTAL # of occurences	MCDONALDS	JESUS	SEX	TSIGA	JACKSON	DINGBATS
	dense	competitive		TOTAL # of occurences	modern/sloppy	biblical/terse	poetic/high-brow	hard/fast	talky	mixed salad
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
I have yet to publish the table of frequency for the word monkey, but I will get to it shortly. -Michal

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Usage of Monkey in Death to McDonalds

An aerial view of Dodger Stadium in the foreground, with an imaginary partially submerged Los Angeles behind — A story bible for a comic book series set in a post climate-change California narrated by eight characters who live through a natural disaster that sinks Los Angeles and triggers a war with an expansionist Mexican government covertly supported by China.

Frame #3822

im west of downtown. mexicans took over this neighborhood. every pimp and porch monkey from here to the river looks hispanic.

JC Penney

16 September, 12:41 PM

Frame #1905

i stayed up late playing asteroid monkey. i didnt even get a high score. thanks to sprint and chase i feel like a kid whose parents arent home.

Justin Bieber

17 August, 7:17 AM

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Usage of Monkey in The Gospel of Jesus H.

A picture of the planet Mars — An experimental science fiction Christology that makes Jesus the hard boiled narrator of his own early years on a bizarro earth made dark by volcanic ash and informally ruled by a man from Mars who sells bottled air.

I really started to dance. I did a few acrobatics. The monkey played along. He started dancing a monkey dance, waving his long monkey arms and hands, using his tail to stand up. He was upstaging me, the monkey bastard. I stripped off my jacket. I started unbuttoning my shirt. The game was on, but poor, little monkey boy didn't know what I had in mind. Having taken off my shirt, I rolled it up and started whipping him. The monkey didn't like it. The deejay started playing DEVO's 'Whip It.' I gave him another thumbs-up. Club 2000 never had a better floorshow: that was it.

– Verse 393 from the chapter called Bohemia

She was like a child, I thought, wondering if she hadn't completely forgotten this morning's coldness and her pointed remark about the monkey's presence. Did she even remember that my sister had died at the hands - or, more appropriately, the heroin - of Krupniks? Where was the coldness that dawn had greeted? It was swapped for the sun, for sandwiches without meat.

– Verse 895 from the chapter called Bohemia

It was not sheep, however, that sat in the booth across from me that fateful night. On the one hand, it was a Krupnik. On the other hand, I was faced with a strange and abnormal child - not yet a woman, though the law might have said otherwise. It was a chipmunk: a wide, brown-eyed chipmunk, with a monkey wrapped around her shoulders. She was afraid of housecats, the kind that terrorized her without using their claws: the ones that kept her always within reach by lightly squooshing down on her delicate body with their paws, treating her like a ball of yarn, making her slowly unravel until she disappeared.

– Verse 435 from the chapter called Bohemia

"Because this monkey," she said, "eats anything you feed it. Sacha said that whenever I get crazy about food, all I have to do is feed the monkey." Your mother laughed a fake laugh as I stopped walking. My face was stern.

– Verse 749 from the chapter called Bohemia

"Fine," I said. "Bring the monkey. Maybe he'll find something." I was already walking away.

– Verse 523 from the chapter called Bohemia

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Usage of Monkey in Sex for Children

A drawing of a man between a woman's legs in front of another man in a hospital bed — A literature book narrated by a pair of siblings on either side of the Atlantic whose profoundly weird sexual experiences pose a serious challenge to their traditional understanding of mathematicians, marriage, gay young men and God.

BERT: I suppose, well - no, what are you talking about?

INDIE: Well I refuse to be escorted by two mismatched people. You had better dress down Albert.

ANDY: I'm sorry, Indiana: I would've worn a tuxedo but I don't have one.

INDIE: Would you like one?

ANDY: I'm sorry?

INDIE: Stand next to Albert.

BERT: Lift up your arms, my boy. Spread them out.

INDIE: See, you are exactly the same size.

BERT: No, we're not: his arms are longer.

ANDY: I have the arms of a monkey.

– Title 3, Regarding a Dream, Chapter 1, The First Day, Part 1, Victory & Calendar Reform, Section 8, Financial Instruments, Paragraphs 76-85

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Usage of Monkey in Tsiga Tsiga Tsiga

Bullets whizzing by a statue of Nikola Tesla — A collection of stories featuring a sexy Parisian ghost, a spooky Moon base full of vagina-faced aliens, a policeman with an Irish name, a truck full of watermelons, a flautist, and a man who has to see another man about a diseased horse.

"You seem to know a lot for a man who plays Monkey Ball."

"Don't underestimate the game."

"Are you the team's only human?"

"There's one other: a guy named Shaq. He's from West Africa. He's our power forward."

"Does he speak slurpee?"

– from “Dirty Manga People Are Disgusting,” a spooky story featuring a lesbian detective

The woman cocked her head. "What makes you an expert?"

Uzumaki gave her a cold stare. "The girls on the near-side are highly regulated, Ms. Read."

"In that case, you should know how desperate they are. Every other slurpee is out there willing to blow a guy for a handshake."

"Never mind. I'm here to offer you work." The woman squinted in surprise. "Monkey Ball," continued Uzumaki, "is the backbone of the lunar economy. Somebody on the far side is threatening it."

– from “Dirty Manga People Are Disgusting,” a spooky story featuring a colony on the dark side of the moon

"They're aliens. They live on the dark side of the moon. They're descended from a jawless fish. The sexes are indistinguishable."

"Almost indistinguishable," corrected Uzumaki. "Are you familiar with their language?"

The woman snorted. "I don't speak slurpee."

"What about their customs?"

"I hear they procreate through their mouths."

"Are you a fan of Monkey Ball?"

"What am I doing here?"

– from “Dirty Manga People Are Disgusting,” a spooky story featuring an alien culture

The rocket sled zoomed towards Sams Town. Despite the roar, Neal tried to familiarize Tatum with Monkey Ball. He shouted, "It was originally played outside in space suits. When the colony was young, technicians spent their free time throwing moon rocks into holes. The game evolved. People used two craters-one for each team. The ellipse described by them would form the field."

"How big would the field be?"

– from “Dirty Manga People Are Disgusting,” a spooky story featuring a frank discussion of what it means to trust someone

"There's a Monkey Ball team based near the north pole-perhaps you've heard of them: the Sams Town Blackguards. They're owned by a Manga person named Zyplukk. He's not high on our list of priorities. I want you to hang around the team. Take pictures. Send them wirelessly back to us."

"That's it?" Read sneered. "How much?"

– from “Dirty Manga People Are Disgusting,” a spooky story about what it means to exclude people

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Usage of Monkey in Sorry Ms. Jackson

Chiseled letters from an ancient stone tablet hanging on a wall — A real play. With drama in it. Talk fast. It takes two hours. Set in a guest house. In a small community. After a murder. Lots of suspicion. The characters learn to listen to each other. It's funny.

"Monkey" does not make an appearance in Sorry Miss Jackson.

- Michal Slaby

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Usage of Monkey in Miscellaneous Dingbats

The title of the book at the end of a string of miscellaneous dingbats — A story book full of short fiction stories. An interesting bedtime mystery. A fairy tale. Science fiction romance. Adult life. Uninspiring gay fiction. Horror.

"Monkey" does not make an appearance in Miscellaneous Dingbats

- Michal Slaby

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Collocation of Monkey in the Fiction Corpus

Table of Collocation for the Word "Monkey."
This table lists in descending order of frequency a selection of word pairs that appear in the Fiction Corpus and groups them according to the morphological derivation of the word monkey that appears in the pair.
Type	Frequency
	TOTAL # of occurences	MCDONALDS	JESUS	SEX	TSIGA	JACKSON	DINGBATS
	TOTAL # of occurences	modern/sloppy	biblical/terse	poetic/high-brow	hard/fast	talky	mixed salad
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
I have yet to perform a collocation analysis of "monkey." I hope I can get it done sometime soon. -Michal