WHAT KIND of a world was this, where people won’t help you carry expensive scotch but, oh, they don’t mind carrying water? Where a monkey pretends to eat something foul, just to trick you into eating it? Where heads are shrunken and feet are stunken? Where even after you explain to people that what you’re doing is yodeling, they still want you to stop? Where a mad scientist can apparently rent a helicopter, no questions asked? Where plants eat men, and men eat men, but a Patangi won’t let you play his drum because you “might hurt it”? Where you smell a flower and it smells you back? Where you
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