Chapter 1

1. When he had come upon the earth, the ape was naked and afraid.  For comfort he picked up a stick, chewed the end to a point, and stuck it in a nearby living thing.
2. When the living thing died, transfixed by the stick, the ape ate of its flesh and soon conceived a great hunger for the death of other living things.
3. Thereupon the ape made many pointed sticks and stuck them into great multitudes of other living things, including, on occasion, other apes.