By turns absorbing, confounding, exhausting and altogether stranger and more rib-ticklingly funny than most fiction, Craig Baldwin's infelicitously titled and cacophonous provocation, Mock Up on Mu, comes close to defying categorization.

First he fond him cloth and cradel, Tho he fond him stede and sadel; Helm, and briny, and hauberjoun, Saumbers, quissers, and aketoun.

The day for the cook and his cookee started about 3 o'clock in the morning or half past, when they would prepare the spread required to get a lumberman going: buckwheat pancakes (begun the night before with sour-dough starter and made on a girddle that covered the whole top of an eight-lid stove), oatmeal, hash, potatoes, fried salt port, beans, blackstrap molasses, fried cakes, and lots of black coffee sweetened with brown sugar.

The cyanope type (brown eyes, blond hair) and the glaucope type (blue eyes, black hair) probably arose independently as mutations, the glaucope being earlier in the European population, i.e., the mutation to blue eyes probably occurred before the mutation to fair hair.