Schmeggy - I wasn't going anywhere like that. See, Yukon was really pi*sed up, and couldn't see straight during all of chapter 2 (he started drinking at the end of chapter 1). The clothes the mule was wearing came from the Chinese dump -- Old Jack found them and put them on the mule because the mule was cold. The mule had also gone through some sumac trees and come out with red dust on the face. Yukon saw these clothes, and realized they came from his old human girlfriend, Queen Chen, who had lived in the Chinese camp. Unfortunately, Yukon was so hammered, he wasn't thinking straight. So - he gets up in the morning, hangover present and buzz gone, and realizes it's just a mule. He asks Jack about the clothes, Jack tells him, and he goes off in search of the woman. Jack meanwhile helps himself to the hooch, and when Yukon returns four days later without the woman, he finds jack sucking the booze and chops him up. Just for symmetry's sake, Old #7 gorges on Old Jack for the next two days (just like Ben and Adams & Nokomis). The second half of the book deals with Yukon Jack meeting up with the Gilligan's Island and the Chico and The Man cast, and our little alcoholic mountaineer and serial murderer is born.

So - you are to be commended (I think....) on your creative mind but I had no such bestiality thoughts as I wrote the chapter.

johnny

Posted by johnny on May 25, 2001 at 16:16