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from paws 2

the part about why the Americans are
always dissing us as “dull” and at the
sume Ume doing everything in theit
power ta buy as up and potitically
emasculate us,

Last in North America is a wild
roughshod ride over the country
roads of the Canadian psyche and
Gray does not brake for sacred cows.
Eclectic, personal, and stall one of the
best books written about Canada,

Gray's other new book, / Love
Mom, is irreverent nostly in the sense
that a formal history of a narginal
subject is bound to be as humorous as
aman hunting fleas with a jack-ham-
mer, Funny it is, with interpolated
doggerel and News of the Weird-style
tattoo aneedotes, but / Love Mort is
one of the few books on this unique-
ly “human” art form that captures (he
clusive psychic logic of the most
ancient form of sell-identitication,

In our culture, tattoos are associat-
ed with abnornality: crime, prison,
prostitution, war, but as Gray reveals,
the connection exists because the tat-
too really marks a “rite of passage”
from one life to another. The pain of
the tattoo itself mirrors the inner pain
of rebirth and the image, however
hackneyed, is a secret symbol of
rebellion and transformation.

1 know he's right because [ have a
tattoo; a smiall rose over my heart.
Ive dined out on the lurid circum-
stances of its getting: the seedy parlor
on Hastings Street, the beautiful
young woman in a halter and sprayed
on jeans who laid me down, straddled
me and cut into my flesh, the big
Buck. knife on her hip’ and the
Doberman slavering behind the bead-
ed curtain “to keep the freaks off.” I
didn't flinch; 1 don’t think I breathed.

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