Don’t take the monkey bypass(an essay on writing)

When Alyx and I visited with two old friends last weekend, we all went to the African Lion Safari south of Cambridge, Ontario. It’s a big exotic game farm where the animals roam in huge enclosures, and humans drive through them. Humans in little tiny mobile pens, animals in big open habitats. This is the way a zoo should be.

At the gate were signs aboutthe Monkey Bypass, which (the signs implied) you should use if you’re squeamish about bad things happening to your car. Intriguing!Weasked th...