‘So, fill me in on this monkey shit you’ve been working on.’
‘Sorry?’
‘The monkey shit. All that.’
‘I’m not quite getting you.’
‘Oh come on Charles – the Origin of the fucking blah blah. The monkey book. Why does this have to be so complex?’
‘Sorry, I didn’t understand what you were saying. Yes, well, in my trip to the Galapagos Islands — arguably the world’s most pristine example of uninterrupted growth amongst species — I observed–’
‘You’re saying we come from monkeys, yeah?’
‘Not exactly. Yes, fundamentally, we’ve evolved from –’
‘That’s not right.’
‘I’m not saying we are monkeys, by any means.’
‘It’s just wrong though.’
