How does Ivan describe his life at the mall?

My domain is at one end of the ring. I live here because I am too much gorilla and not enough human.

At present, I do not have any gorilla friends.

All day, I watch humans scurry from store to store. They pass their green paper, dry as old leaves and smelling of a thousand hands, back and forth and back again.

My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.