Hot Rocks
May, 1972
Picking up stones began almost as soon as man developed his unique and utile thumb. First he threw them at small game, then he put them on sticks and made spears, and soon he discovered that if he polished them and gave them to Raquel Welch (who was always fighting dinosaurs in the next valley), it might induce her to share his cave on cold winter nights. With luck like that, it followed that he would begin to worship rocks, regarding them as magic amulets and talismans; by the time of the first...
