NPPF Comm 2: My bedroom, part 2

[Don Corathers]

I wrote:

> Sudarg of Bokay. A reflection of the name of a glassmaker we know,
engraved
> on the surface of a "really fantastic mirror." It is problematical that
the
> mirror was made for Charles's grandfather, presumably quite some time ago.
> That would seem to make it impossible for our Jacob Gradus, born in 1915
and
> just 21at the time Fleur gazes at her reflection in the mirror, to be its
> craftsman. Perhaps it was made by his grandfather. Is Kinbote, the expert
on
> surnames who just a few notes ago was lecturing us about variants, unaware
> of this reference to Gradus? He seems to be.
>

The question of when Sudarg lived and when the mirror was made is coyly
addressed in his index entry, which also seems to show no awareness on
Kinbote's part of the Gradus connection:

Sudarg of Bokay, a mirror maker of genius, the patron saint of Bokay in the
mountains of Zembla, 80; life span not known.

Don