Butch may aim for 'civilized,' but the best he can usually do ends up somewhere around 'overgrown schoolboy dressed up for church, but probably forgot to wash behind his ears.' Charm helps a bit, when he can't quite get it right.

"Oh, no, we were going to a concert--they got some fella all the way from Vienna to play the piano, and Miss Mireille here wanted to go. It wasn't here, though."

That much of the story makes sense. He's confident in that much. Beyond those facts, it gets into gods and giant metal birds and he's not rightly sure what happened.

But the fact that they were going to a concert and did not end up there? He's got a handle on that.