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The Mating Rituals of the Burning Giraffe

Morgan Benson
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Pages
284
Year
2010
Language
English

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Set in a world where clocks melt and gentlemen rain from the sky, The Mating Rituals Of The Burning Giraffe is a grown-ups fable, inspired by the surrealist paintings, sculptures, and sketches of Magritte, Dal, and Monty Python. It’s a brightly colored delirium, dedicated to the indomitable child.

The story follows Billy Dada, a young man about to enter a state of higher learning where he will be taught the principles of categorizing biological diversity, from smelly wolves to cats with heads like mushrooms, from hares with fangs to enormous clams, but who, midst the books and lectures, nurtures a fascination with the giraffa infernalis, a prying obsession that’s about to turn into a scathefire.

So begins a black-and-blue excursion into the brushstrokes on life’s canvas. It’s a slab of confusion and desperation, a swirl of hardships and sorrows inside a frame of meaning. The Mating Rituals of the Burning Giraffe is an adult fairytale about how fate tears us apart unless we move with it.

It’s a way to move with it.

Move with it.

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