“The Evolution Man: Or How I
Ate My Father”
Roy Lewis
Pantheon Books
Grade: B+
“Times have changed,” said
Father. “Or rather, they haven’t,
and that’s the trouble. We’re fur
ther behind than I thought. No, no,
my dear sons; culturally we are
little higher than Pithecanthropus
erectus; and he, believe me, is no
go. He’s for the dump, along with
the rest of nature’s failures.”
This cult classic, originally pub
lished in 1960 as “What We Did to
Father” has just be re-released in
softcover. The story deals with your
average Pleistocene cave family and
its daily struggles to survive the
harshness of primitive life. Barely
living, in the midst of bears, lions
and general death and destruction,
Father decides that it is time for the
family members to evolve.
First, they master fire by bring
ing burning wood down from a
volcano, and they nearly bum them
selves to death when it gets out of
hand.
It is then decided that the sons
should go to another tribe to get
wives. This disappoints Ernest, the
main character and narrator, be
cause he was looking forward to
marrying one of his sisters.
The rest of the novel deals with
the family learning how to cook
flesh (by accidentally burning up
one of the family’s pet pigs), figur
ing out how to paint on the sides of
the cave walls and trying to domes
ticate dogs.
And through it all, Uncle Vanya,
who refuses to come down out of
the trees except when he’s cold,
provides commentary on how
Ernest and the others are going to
destroy humanity.
“The Evolution Man” is a hi
larious novel. The characters speak
sophisticated English, which con
trasts nicely with the primitive
nature of their culture. Father con
stantly pushes his sons to invent,
invent, invent. But they can only
go so far; their brains cannot handle
too much information.
Lewis also manages to examine
the materialistic aspect of modem
humanity by having his characters
constantly trying to get more stuff.
At the beginning of the novel their
main concern is getting eaten by a
wild animal; at the end their big
gest worry is designing a paint that
doesn’t wash off.
The only bad thing with this
book is that it ends with the end of
the Pleistocene period. Lewis set
the book up so it could be contin
ued, period after period, up until
the modem age. If he hasn’t con
tinued the story within the last 30
years, it isn’t likely he’ll do it now.
Still, “The Evolution Man” is a
wonderful read — fast-paced and
funny. Pick it up.
— William Harms
Scout
Continued from Page 9
Although the dialogue is fairly
hit-and-miss, all the actors — espe
cially Brooks and Fraser — perform
well. A1 would sell his mother’s soul
to sign on a good player, and Brooks
manages to fit his character perfectly
— a trustworthy face with angelic
eyes and a fast-talking tongue.
Fraser is great, especially when
Nebraska’s instability begins to show. .
At first, his behavior seems only odd,
but it later has a childlike slant.
George Steinbrenner, Bob Costas
and Steve Garvey are only a few of the
boatload of cameos in “The Scout,”
but it’s not like these guys had any
thing else to do.
“The Scout” definitely isn’t a fall
classic, but it has its moments. It’s
worth checking out.
“The Scout”
Rating: PG-13
Stars: Albert Brooks, Brendan Fraser, Dianne Wiest, Lane Smith
Director: Michael Ritchie
Grade: B
Five words: Desperate scout meets eccentric ballplayer
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ACROSS
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s Rani's spouse
10 Kimono sashes
14 “Not guilty" is
one
is Superior
16 The Darlings'
dog
17 King or Bates
it Calligrapher’s
craft?
20 John Sanford’s
stage name
22 Believers of
sorts
23 Eastern leader
24 Thin board
25 Despot
27 Malevolent
31 Actor Tamblyn
32 Gabs
33 Slugger's stat
34 Hansel's
exclamations
35 Pedal next to a
clutch
36 Life stories, for
short
37 -fi
36 Monotone
39 “Quantum
-TV show
40 Most joyful
42 Lou and Lee
44 Formicary
denizens
45 Gotten; Abbr
46 Sufficient
46 Chunky
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
S3 Will Hays’s
craft?
55 Riza Pahlevi
56 Fourth base
57 Musical form
58 Ireland
59 Singles
60 Some statues
61 Lhasa
DOWN
1 Go a few rounds
2 Pronoun for
Frangoise
3 The Presidential
yacht?
• Continent, eg.
5 Gunshot noise
oTrebek of quiz
shows
7 Continuing bad
luck
8 Bank
convenience,
for short
9 This may be a
screamer
10 Accomplished
at the locale
11 Ebenezer's
expletives
12 Pt. of a
monogram
13 Drains
19-foot oil
21 Fiver
24 Slam a
volleyball down
25 Deep-six
26 Desert plant
27 “Can’t! Don’t!
-! Won't!":
Kipling
2t Craft for Damon
and Pythias?
2« Lusitania's
undoer
ao Speaks
imperfectly
32 Ornery
38 Fellow
members
38 Water around
Sevastopol
38 Australian dog
41 Ers and urns
42 “The-of
Roth," book
about Portnoy?
43 -room
48 Parrot
47 Light gas
48 "This one's
49 Clunk's kin
so Put out of sight
51 Parts of pitchers
52 Van Gogh’s
brother
54 Actor Erwin
