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Aaaaahh............ I don't know. I don't know what I'm supposed to say.
Listen Moulin, I want to know exactly everything that happened. Got it? Now before you start, let me just say that I don't believe for a second this bullshit about you bein' insane. Strung out maybe, but unless you work out your story properly, then the Galactic High Court's gonna extradite your arse back to Mintaka.
Hey it's not much fun for me! ... having to say I went crazy. I pride myself on my grasp of reality. It's like having to admit I wet myself when I didn't, or something.
Whatever. Now in your statement you said you thought, 'the universe had gone crazy,' what is that supposed to mean?
Aaah. Well, I suppose a good example is with the rhubarb. I got back here, from Tau Ceti, I'd been away for six months, and everyone I meet is saying 'Rhubarb'. Walking around the city, meeting up with old friends at shops or cafes, and, their sentences littered with the word rhubarb.
In context?
No. Well yes, sometimes, but mainly by itself, just tacked onto the end of a statement. 'Gee Frank that's a swell tan job you've got. Rhubarb.'
Well, did you ask 'em, what they meant by it?
I did once. And I was told that I, and I quote, 'Really need to loosen up, you should take a holiday or something Skip'. That piece of advice always irritates me, people have to appreciate the uniqueness of this line of work. How do you take a holiday from holidaying, what do you do when employment and leisure fuse so completely..........like this........
Get to the point Moulin, Mintaka, Mintaka.
All right, all right - you did say you wanted detail...Ooouh...Mintaka. Well I suppose that's why I'm here, right? I was only back three days from the last job when I got the message from Blip in that, insane, mad drawling voice of his. He's got another job for me, 'An offer I can't refuse', he says. He always says that, gives him a kick or something...geez.....So I'm back in Anchorage.......
[- like LA with crud-coloured snow - a hole-in-the-wall kebab stand - Skip leaning back against counter - ice cream cup in hand - staring through passers by - imitation eel neckties - nose plugs - fake space-scooter helmets complete with bug antennae - tattooed clown smiles - powdered white wigs - The Swarthy Kebab Guy's quiet day - strained expression of remembrance-]
.....gazing into the madness, pondering rhubarb and wondering how my monkey Jiggers is. I get to Go Space Jump headquarters and end up waiting for an hour and a half, and I remember feeling ...... fairly pissed about that because I'd left my place that morning in a hurry due to the message, and I hadn't had an opportunity to even wash properly since I arrived back from that sinkhole - Tau-Ceti. Sedgwick....
