Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book | Characters
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book is concerned with the thoughts and feelings of a single character, Wittman Ah Sing, an unemployed artist and social critic one year out of college. Wittman is self-described as "the present-day USA incarnation of the King of the Monkeys" an allusion to the Monkey King of Chinese legend instrumental in bringing Buddha's Sutras to China. But Wittman is full of monkey business as well. His desire to integrate the orient and Occident appears both mythic and melodramatic, both sincere and incredibly self-absorbed. In his search for unity and identity,...
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