"Great 21st Century Novel"

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
54. Note: Would refer you to the subtitle, two pages back.


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56. And then came along the anteater, although some would question later, which came first, the ant or the anteater, no doubt a question dreamed up by some egghead.

Originally posted by coquette
56. And then came along the anteater, although some would question later, which came first, the ant or the anteater, no doubt a question dreamed up by some egghead.

58. And thus it came to pass that God had created all of the creatures, great and small, and saw that he made a number of mistakes, but genetic mutations would take care of that. Others, later, would make a case for evolution. Semantics! Semantics! screeched the divine spirit. Who cares?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Chapter One... Eternity Past
(1-11)


Chapter Two... Angels
(12-16)


Chapter Three... Earth
(17-39)


Chapter Four.. Animals
(40-58)

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Chapter Five... Mankind
(59-


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59. Dwelling in caves, discovering that burnt meat tastes better, salted meat lasts longer, fire can be controlled, green tasty things can be planted and gathered, oh, what an eden we inherited!

60. The next day politics was born.

Originally posted by coquette
60. The next day politics was born.

62. It was in the rainforest on a full moon night, the embers glowing in the clay pot, stones of different shapes were being placed carefully to make a fire for the evening meal. Some contentious grunts and growls erupted over the best arrangement of the stones. Break it up, snorted the alpha female of the tribe, thus calling a halt to the earliest formation of chess, setting back the formation of the royal game by ten millennia.

Originally posted by coquette
62. It was in the rainforest on a full moon night, the embers glowing in the clay pot, stones of different shapes were being placed carefully to make a fire for the evening meal. Some contentious grunts and growls erupted over the best arrangement of the stones. Break it up, snorted the alpha female of the tribe, thus calling a halt to the earliest formation of chess, setting back the formation of the royal game by ten millennia.

64. And after checkers, or was it at the same time, but in a far off place, we shall likely never know, as the "Index" games have been lost to the sands of time, "GO" was formed. So simple, this timeless game, yet so vexing in subtleties and complexities! Alas, checkers, chess and go - all monumental wastes of good time, according to various spouses on the continents.

65. All with excellent chances for endless hours of entertainment, when suddenly, out of nowhere, comes flat little pieces of carbboard with pictures and numbers! POKER and BRIDGE! It was all too much! Civilizations would clash. Wars would be fought. Casinos, may millennia later, would rake in huge profits from those who would find ways to "beat the system."

66. And thus, would progress civilization for many centuries, until the final form of over-the-board chess would be developed, awaiting only the development of the chess clock, and later, the computer, and finally the internet, for the stage to be set for the advancement of civilization to the modern day.

Originally posted by coquette
66. And thus, would progress civilization for many centuries, until the final form of over-the-board chess would be developed, awaiting only the development of the chess clock, and later, the computer, and finally the internet, for the stage to be set for the advancement of civilization to the modern day.

68. And so, too, the common phrase was born next that would be repeated millions of times a minute over the next 15,000 years. Just after this next move, dear.