Reply #6: kick with added "History of the World Backwards" goodness

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

This is what Newman is currently working on - he's been performing it as a reading with songs over the past week but I don't think he's decided what he wants the finished product to be (a tour, a book, a website, etc).
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NARRATOR: The history of the world backwards. What does it look like? From a distance we may see the mighty sweeps of population. We gaze in horror upon American Indians as in 1900 they begin a process of ethnic cleansing, so relentless and ruthless that by 1492 there is not one single European living on the North American landmass.

Approach and we may see the wars and the conflicts, hear the cries from the battlefield and the widow?s lament. Closer still, observe how a man?s life changes his character. In the southern cone of Africa, Nelson Mandela enters prison a sweet-natured Spice Girl fan but emerges from long incarceration an embittered terrorist bent on the armed overthrow of the state.

Closer still and we see... ourselves! Look! Look... look...!

http://www.robnewman.com/history.html