In Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, a Kurt Vonnegut book is visible on a table in what appears to be the residence of a human serving the apes. We know it’s a Vonnegut book: the human (Bill Macy) says “Vonnegut.” The cover isn’t readable, but it’s easy to guess what that book must be: Welcome to the Monkey House (1968).
The cover looks something like this.
Related reading
A handful of Kurt Vonnegut posts (Pinboard)
[Four sentences about this movie will arrive in the near far future. There are many movies ahead of it in the queue. Here I’ll say that Kingdom is visually stunning, kinda incoherent, far too long, and screaming sequel as it ends. Visually stunning makes it worth seeing.]
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Planet of the monkey house
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I wonder, though, if his novel Galápagos could also be relevant: "the story of a small band of mismatched humans who are shipwrecked on the fictional island of Santa Rosalia in the Galápagos Islands after a global financial crisis cripples the world's economy. Shortly thereafter, a disease renders all humans on Earth infertile, with the exception of the people on Santa Rosalia, making them the last specimens of humankind. Over the next million years, their descendants, the only fertile humans left on the planet, eventually evolve into a furry species resembling sea lions: though possibly still able to walk upright (it is not explicitly mentioned, but it is stated that they occasionally catch land animals), they have a snout with teeth adapted for catching fish, a streamlined skull and flipper-like hands with rudimentary fingers..."
To be sure, I haven't read either book.
Wow — that certainly fits. I haven’t read it either. I did read Welcome to the Monkey House, or at least some of it, in high school.
My guess is that the title itself makes Welcome to the Monkey House a more likely choice — a joke that more people could get, or guess at. I don’t think there’s any way to make out the title without the help of a Pause button.
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