Trying to dig their way to China before dinner time, the Twins are interrupted. Soon they will discover how well they succeeded. From the backyard's breach emerge Hear No Evil, See No Evil, and Speak No Evil, three mouse-size monkeys (of a species long-believed to be extinct) who deliver and immediately abandon a fourth monkey - Geezer - afflicted with a strange, contagious dis-ease. When Geezer commences sneezing the Twins' fates are sealed... as are the fates of each and every person on Mother Earth. Mankind, in the end, gets what it deserves. Beginning as a children's story, Monkey Due takes a fanciful premise and twists it into an almost plausible tale that pits Primitivism against Civilization, Nature against Technology, Ape against Humanity, while tracing each to its origins in Life's primeval stew. Highly recommended for poets, philosophers, and misanthropes.