Necessary Monsters
Robert WalrodUncovering Pokémon's mythic roots.
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Pokémon and The Journey to the West
Image from University of Chicago Press.
We are not worthless monks or impotent Daoists, for we really do have some abilities; we are most experienced, in fact, in capturing monsters.
Sun Wukong in chapter 18 of The Journey to the West. Tr...
#056-57: Mankey and Primeape
The edict said:
The Great Sage, Equal to Heaven, a monstrous monkey from the Flower-Fruit Mountain, is in revolt. At the Palace he stole peaches, wine, and elixir, and disrupted the Grand Festival of Immortal Peaches. A hundred thousand He...
#069-71: Bellsprout family
Bellsprout (Pokémon Trading Card Game, Jungle Set #49. Illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno.)
Feed me, Seymour.
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
In the summer of 1860, Charles Darwin took a holiday in Sussex and became fascinated with the unusual...
#066-68: Machop family
Machop (Pokémon Trading Card Game, Base Set #52. Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita.)
Work it, make it
Do it, makes us
Harder, better
Faster, stronger
Daft Punk, “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”
Because the musclebound family of Mach...
#052: Meowth
Meowth (Pokémon Trading Card Game, Jungle Set #56). Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita.
But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.
Rudyard Kipling, “The Cat That Walked by Hims...
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Independent art historian and film and fiction writer; worked on the award-winning documentary Kusama: Infinity.
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