The text omits Cook's early life story and fast-forwards to age 39, just before he began his trio of epic voyages. |
He fast-forwards to a second cosmological revolution led by Edwin Hubble, who launched the Big Bang theory and the concept of an expanding universe. |
He then fast-forwards to the present when a new poetics reclaims the impulse of the earlier avant-garde. |
The story fast-forwards to 23 years later as Davis is careening down the road with a girl, with SUVs in hot pursuit. |