naturally , in spite of what anyone here in the salad bar said , silver thread representatives from the republic would flatly deny any allegations made refuting the official version , and would have further laughed off any assertions that bussaba had instead been a penniless bus boy in an all-night salad bar in yamis under city ; that he had additionally been a member of a murderous graffiti gang there called the petite pinky wastrels ; that he had taken up painting only as a means of survival to appease a murderous old brothel madam who had wished to have him castrated in order to satisfy the obligations of a debt his father had left unpaid .