About four billion years after the Big Bang, Tom Levine came to life, said "About time," grabbed a cane pole and went fishing. After that he hit the road and caught a lot of new kinds of fish, nearly died of ignorance a couple times in the Sierra Nevada, traveled to faraway places where he nearly got killed a few times by wild animals and took up hang gliding and remained perfectly safe. Then he got married and finally had sex. He quit going fishing and became a writer.