Twenty- The Ape and The Optimist

The astounding Cosmo, last Great Calpenkian White Ape

There are three masks: the one we think we are, the one we really are, and the one we have in common.” – Jacques Lecoq

I was awoken by a bright light. It was a milkman driving past my car. I was up on Dartmoor. It was October and I had fallen asleep in the front seat of my car with a large, white ape on top of me. It was 1993 and I was learning the true meaning of optimism. I wonder what that milkman thought. This is the story of what led up to me only having a large ape puppet to keep warm in my old estate car up on Dartmoor.

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