The Finite Chimps

A secretive facility plays home to one hundred steel cages, one hundred chimpanzees, and, perhaps more intriguing still, one hundred Olivetti typewriters. The Finite Chimps is both an amusing and chilling story about an altogether odd experiment gone awry. Moreover, it is an altogether dark and hairy tale about man’s often cruel indifference and belligerent abuse of his animal cousins, and a short sighted disregard for the beauty and magnificence of the natural world. "What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! " Hamlet quote (Act II, Scene II) Man, paragon of animals, rightful heir of Eden, master of this goodly frame the Earth? Such a premise was about to be severely tested!