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"It's a Victorian sex-ed manual. For children. Starring a monkey."

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CTD|4.9.04 @ 1:18AM|

I call hoax! It's too close to the Devo/SubGenius mythologies. Don't let a monkeyman make a fool out of you...

Jesse Walker|4.9.04 @ 1:46AM|

Believe it or not, it's real. Google "Edward Bliss Foote" with "troublesome monkey."

Jeff|4.9.04 @ 1:48AM|

Ah, the grand old days of steampunk pornmonkeys. I'm sick of the fact that only decades from the second half of the 20th century get to be trendy and fashionable. We need another era of senseless clothing and passing dance crazes and...
...oh sorry.

CTD|4.9.04 @ 4:46AM|

Three relevant URL's show up, and the only source of info in all of them is Michael Sappol. I remain skeptical - although Googling just "Edward Bliss Foote" does, I concede, show him to be out on the Wellville tip.

Jesse Walker|4.9.04 @ 5:36AM|

Well, if he's hoaxing us, he's hoaxing Princeton University Press too.

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