The Adventures of Stagger Li

Chapter Seventeen

The Ox

The Ox could be found at the center of the Maze first trod by virginal sacrifices then by the
warrior Theseus.

The Maze, over time, with its tortuous no-escape passageways littered with bones and other
human debris (dental and other prosthetic devices), had given way to the tamely Christian - New
Age labyrinth with a deeply grooved tourist-trodden pathway and frequent map-signs that read
YOU ARE HERE: X, producing the absolute trust and certainty that if you kept walking you
would eventually reach the center where no longer the Minotaur who long before you reached
your first map-sign would have sought you out and drunk your blood from your pulsating
headless neck awaited you, but now The Ox which served cool Guinness and Red Bull.