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- Hello my names ivan but poeple love to call the the one and only ivan because im a gorrila that can talk.
- Ivan says he is no longer a wild gorilla, but still looks the part; he is four hundred pounds of pure power, and mightier than any human. Ivan lives at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, a circus-themed shopping center in a human habitat made of cement and glass.
- One of the walls of his cell has a jungle scene with a waterfall painted on it.Stella the elephant is trained to sit on a stool while a dog named Snickers rides her back. A bear, a parrot, a chicken that plays baseball, and a rabbit that drives a fire truck also live at the Big Top Mall. There was a seal at some point, but she died from eating the pennies people tossed into her pool.
- All day long Ivan watches the humans shop and forage at the mall; he thinks they are lousy hunters.  Ivan lives on display in his domain, separated from the human world by a glass window.  In Ivan's cell there's a tire swing, an old television, and a toy stuffed gorilla, a present from Julia, the ten-year-old daughter of George, the janitor at the mall.
- Ivan once had a twin sister named Tag who died when they were both very young, so when Julia gave him a toy gorilla, he named it Not-Tag. Ivan is an artist. Julia is, too, and she gave Ivan his first crayon; he learned to draw with it. Ivan wants to draw his dreams, but he says he never remembers them.
- He considers himself an inferior artist because he can only draw and paint the things he sees, and reveres Julia as the kind of idea-driven artist he would like to be, painting things that don't exist yet.  Ivan is never bored because he has his art. Like a great Zen master, he lives in the present moment, and prefers not to waste his time thinking about yesterday or tomorrow. 
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