Backwards Plot

I noticed that the Chicken Lover started his crime sprey before Officer Barbrady annouced that his couldn't read. Then later the Chicken Lover said that he did it so Barbrady would learn how to read.

I noticed that, too. The way I see it, the librarian cooked up the whole "I did it to teach Barbrady to read" story as an excuse to have sex with chickens.

Notice that the first time he struck, his note didn't have any literary clues. He started leaving those clues after the town found out that Barbrady couldn't read. This guy already had a fetish for chickens, gave in to his lust, and THEN figured out how to get away with it.

In article , [email]

-- Dorraj "So this article is not going to end the way I thought it would ... and looking back at the lead I see that it didn't even start that way either. As for the middle, I can barely remember it." -- Hunter S. Thompson

In article , Dorraj ([email]) danced around the maypole saying something about...

nope. he did not have sex with chickens to teach barbrady to read. he had sex with chickens to *motivate* barbrady to WANT to learn to read.

no? what about the note left behind at the scene of the first incident?

or maybe he had secret inside information that barbrady could not read.

[email] (Dan The Kitti Man) wrote:

that was your standard magazine-letter-cut-out ransom note. if you think that construes a 'literary reference,' you need to read more!

On 29 May 1998 17:00:58, [email] wrote:

The purpose of that was to give him a reason to NEED to read.

You're splitting hairs and missing my point. He didn't do it for either of the reasons you mentioned. He had sex with chickens because he was horny for some fowl poon. The story about getting Barbrady to read was just an excuse so he would get away with it.

Once again, nothing in the first note pointed to a book and said (in so many words) "you will find your next clue here..."

The first note was your standard cut-and-paste note to taunt the police. The subsequent notes referred to books only after Barbrady admitted his illiteracy.

You might be right. A brand new character rides into town and instantly discovers "secret inside information" that the town's longtime residents had no clue about. Yes, that makes much more sense. What was I thinking?

-- Dorraj "So this article is not going to end the way I thought it would ... and looking back at the lead I see that it didn't even start that way either. As for the middle, I can barely remember it." -- Hunter S. Thompson