Sock Monkeys Vs. Sock Puppets
Filed under: Obsessions - June 3, 2007 @ 6:25 amAww, just look at cute little blue-eyed Tootsie Roll modeling the sock monkey-sized puppet a friend gave me:
People often mistakenly refer to sock monkeys as sock puppets. This is insulting to sock monkeys. A good explanation comes from the book Sock Monkey Dreams:
Puppets are hollow and are manufactured to serve the needs and the words of another being. They are like parasites, attaching themselves onto the hand of a host in order to spring into personal existence.
Sock monkeys, however, are complete in and of themselves - solid, three-dimensional beings with distinct personalities who do not collapse into undefined flatness because of the lack of a host.
