kim recruits a band of flamboyant and picturesque outlaws called the wild fruits there s the crying one who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent what d the matter somebody take your lollipop oh seor i m sorry for you and the priest who goes into a gunfight giving his adversary the last rites and the blind gun who zeroes in with bat squeaks kim trains his men to identify themselves with death he takes some rookie guns out to a dead horse rotting in the sun eviscerated by vultures kim points to the horse steaming there in the noonday heat alright roll in it what roll in it get the stink of death into your chaps and your boots and your guns and your hair well most of us puked at first but we got used to it and vultures followed us around hopefully we always ride into town with the wind behind us the townspeople gag and wretch my god what s that stink it s the stink of death citizens and i think personally the whole planet stinks of death what are we going to do about it well all this may have happened many times before in this whole universe here we are trillions of years ago in galaxy x rally has been organised to protest the use of black holes as an energy source a bit late as it turned out closing time gentlemen brion gysin has a bedtime story it seems that trillions of years ago a giant flicked grease from his fingers one of these gobs of grease is our universe on its way to the floor 