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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
In Kurt Vonnegut's CAT'S CRADLE, he tells of a calamity which strikes humanity in 1986, which eventually leads to the extinction of all the human race except those descended from a small group shipwrecked on the island of Santa Rosalia, most northerly of the Galapagos. Over the next million years, their descendants evolve into seal-like creatures with much smaller brains, greatly increasing the general level of happiness.
(vonnegut attributes our general unhappiness as a result of brains TOO big.)
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dude, that isn't in Cat's Cradale. that's in Galapagos. Cat's Cradle is about a small group of people surviving a man-made apocalypse on an island in the Caribbean.