NPPF: Canto Three: Chron & Analysis Pt 1 of 2

[Jasper Fidget]

> Behalf Of David Morris
> 
> --- "Vincent A. Maeder" <vmaeder at cyhc-law.com> wrote:
> >
> > His first engagement is with IPH at the behest of President McAber.
> 
> Although I've used the term a number of times already describing the poem,
> I
> hadn't noticed IPH's president's name until now.
> 
> macabre.
> 
> Main Entry: ma7ca7bre
> Pronunciation: m&-'kdb; -'kd-br&, -b&r; -'kdbr&
> Function: adjective
> Etymology: French, from (danse) macabre dance of death, from Middle French
> (danse de) Macabri
> Date: 1889
> 1 : having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized
> representation of death
> 2 : dwelling on the gruesome
> 3 : tending to produce horror in a beholder
> synonym see GHASTLY

Also perhaps the character Wilkins Micawber from Dickens' _David
Copperfield_, who is certain that "something will turn up" to save him from
his financial difficulties, and who flirts with suicide.  Also the word
"aber" in McAber is German for "but" (just saying is all).

Jasper