Chapter 36 Summary

"Not a Bad-Looking Piece of Driftwood"

Cleopatra tells Tully that he looks "like a shipwrecked castaway and smell worse than a shrimper on a three-day binge" (pg. 322). She tells him that he's been made the research consultant on the trip.

Cleopatra gives Sammy Raye and Ix-Nay a tour of the schooner. Solomon shows Tully to his cabin and tells him that they're headed for Cayo Loco. First, there is a bon voyage party.

Tully showers, shaves and joins the party; Ix-Nay drags him into the limbo line. Sammy Raye says goodbye, tells Tully that he's going to look into the Thelma Barston situation and see what he can dig up on her, and leaves. Ix-Nay asks why Tully looks worried. He explains that everything is happening so quickly. Ix-Nay replies that "the world spins at one thousand miles an hour. This is nothing...