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Humans turn furry, swim and
eat fish in crazy 'Galapagos'
By Scott Schmidt
Staff Reporter
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Imagine this. You are much like a
seal, swimming in the ocean, eating'
fish and your body is covered with fur.
But you are human.
According to Kurt Vonnegut's latest
novel, "Galapagos," human beings will
evolve into furry little fish-eating mam
mals during the next million years or
so.
Movie Review
"Galapagos" is the story of man's
evolution as seen through the eyes of
Leon Trotsky Trout. Ah, you say, how
can a man see the course of evolution
spanning more than a million years?
Simple.
He is a ghost.
The setting for Vonnegut's novel is
(where else?) the Galapagos Islands.
What better place to follow the evolu
tion of man than Charles Darwin's old
stomping grounds?
The story starts in 1986. The world is
in serious economic trouble. War and
famine reign. But even in the worst of
times, a few well-to-do people remain
unaffected.
These "unaffected" people include
Mick Jagger, Jacqueline Onassis, Wal
ter Cronkite and Henry Kissinger,
among others. They are about to embark
on a cruise through the Galapagos
Islands, "The Nature Cruise of the
Century."
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Little did the passengers know that
they were about to become the sole
progenitors of the entire human race.
Unfortunately, Mick, Jacqueline,
Walter and Henry would never make it
to the Galapagos Islands. The gene
pool for the entire human race would
be limited to a handful of less-than-significant
humans.
The story is in true Vonnegut form:
funny, crazy, and touched with the cyn
icism of which Vonnegut is so fond.
Galapagos has no real plot. It has no
chronological order. Vonnegut moves
freely from 1980 to 2300 without a
flinch, taking the same attitude about
time he did in "Slaughterhouse-Five."
The thing that holds his work
together is the grouping of random
characters fated to fulfill destiny.
The characters' lives are bound by
this common fate, which is unknown to
them. Coincidence groups them, and
they stumble along toward their preor
dained lot.
More than this bind, though, is an
idea that runs constantly through Von
negut's novels. That idea is that man
eventually will destroy his world and
himself with technology.
Nuclear bombs, ice nine, and, in
"Galapagos," a more general cause for
man's destruction. "Great big brains"
take the rap this time.
Vonnegut assumes the role of Father
Nature. He preaches as if he were the
watchguard of science. We can listen,
or we can perish as the result of our
"great big brains" working overtime to
assure our destruction.
Despite Vonnegut's lack of plot, his
stories do have substance. Some of his
characters are unforgettable, if not
lovable.
If you have read Vonnegut before,
you will recognize Kilgore Trout,
appearing again in "Galapagos." He is
the eccentric science fiction writer
who has appeared in some of Vonne
gut's other novels. The narrator of
Galapagos, Leon Trout, is Kilgore
Trout's son.
"Galapagos" is good, fun reading.
But if you want to taste Vonnegut's
style at its best, pick up "Cat's Cradle"
or "Slaughterhouse-Five."
'Out of Africa'
still best seller
Not too long ago the best-selling
books in the university and Nebraska
Bookstores either were written by
Stephen King, Gary Larson orBerke
Breathed or were about Tom Osborne.
Now, "The Color Purple" and
"Out of Africa" recent movie
releases have topped the charts
for the third straight week. King has
dropped to No. 9 on one list and
Osborne's autobiography, "More
Than Winning," is missing from
both lists.
Here are last week's top sellers
from both student bookstores:
University Bookstore
1. "Out of Africa," Isak Dinesen
(Vintage, $4.95)
2. "The Color Purple," Alice
Walker (Pocket, $3.95)
3. "The Original Hitchhiker Radio
Scripts," Douglas Adams (Harmony,
$9.95)
4. "Lake Wobegon Days," Garri
son Keillor (Viking, $17.95)
5. "Valley of the Far Side," Gary
Larson (Andrews, McMeel and
Parker, $5.95)
6. "Love Medicine," Louise Erdrich
(Bantam, $6.95)
7. "How to Massage Your Cat,"
Alice M. Brock (Knopf, $4.95)
8. "Neil's Book of the Dead,"
Planer and Blacker (Harmony, $8.95)
9. "White Noise," Dan Delillo
(Penquin, $5.95)
10. "Penquin Dreams and Stranger
Things," Berke Breathed (Little,
Brown and Co., $6.95)
Nebraska Bookstore
1. "Out of Africa," Isak Dinesen
(Vintage, $4.95)
2. "The Color Purple," Alice
Walker (Pocket, $3.95)
3. "Breaking with Moscow,"
Arkady N. Shevenko (Ballantine,
$4.95) .
4. "Surely You're Joking, Mr.
Feynmen," Richard Feynman (Ban
tam, $4.50)
5. "Bridge Across Forever," Richard
Bach (Dell, $3.95)
6. "Love," Leo Buscaglia (Faw
cett, $3.95)
7. "Strong Medicine," Arthur Hai
ley (Dell, $4.50)
8. "World Almanac and Book of
Facts, 1986," (Newspaper Enterprise
Assoc. Inc., $5.95)
9. "Talisman," Stephen King and
Peter Straub (Berkley, $4.95)
10. 'Third Garfield Treasury,"
Jim Davis (Ballantine, $8.95)
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