Want an Ape? Prompt #2, Chapter #24

In the beginning of the chapter, the narrator is thinking about what is going to happen to him when he is found. He is thinking about the kind of punishment he is going to have to go through. "Riinnnngggg...No, they wouldn't call first. Once they decided to take me, they would probably set and ambush in the elevator: first mace, then a gang-swarm. It would come with no warning. So I picked up the phone. It was my friend Bruce Innes, calling from the Circus-Circus. He had located the man who wanted to see the ape I'd been inquiring about." (Thompson 188) Just as the narrator is reviewing what would happen to him, his friend calls about an ape? How random. When was an ape part of the picture? And what timing to bring it in. I had to question what Hunter Thompson was on when he wrote the book to put something as random as that in. Just a little bit confusing, and rather random.