Monkeys that sway to fire want fire to walk. Fire to command. Fire to burn away the impurities of monkey speak and monkey life. But when fire walks, the fire commands the destruction of all that monkeys had once been. Until there is only naked monkey. Drugged. Rambling. Telling us the story of how fire came to be.

"We should have realised, at this late juncture, that neither our knowledge nor our reason had any relevance to the situation."