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IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WURD, AND THE WURD WAS 'WHAA?AA!' One spring evening in a stone age encampment, the first word was uttered, followed shortly by the first lie. Before long someone had told the first story, cracked the first joke, sparked off the first row… Gob's life is nearly over, His teeth are gone, his legs won't work, but one thing's for sure, there's nothing wrong with his mouth. Gob has seen it all – survived exile, earthquake, fire and ice to tell his tale, and nothing's going to stop him. After all, he is the world's first narrator, and his story is the extraordinary account of Man's first faltering steps on the confusing path to enlightenment. Also available in Flamingo: 'Fou, Mischief, Blueglass, Baa' and 'Gallimauf's Gospel' 'Chris Wilson's free-wheeling, friskily rhetorical style generates a fine comic exuberance.'SUNDAY TIMES 'An immensely readable book, and the pleasures of the sounds it makes in the mind's ear are quite extraordinarily rich…with phrases of great pith and power.JOHN CLUTE, 'New Statesman and Society'