Remember Dewey Gland, from V.?

[Mark Kohut]

whose name supposedly sent Vladimir
Nabokov into wild appreciative laughter?

Dewey Dell, who is presented as a young
woman as a dewey dell in As I Lay Dying.

(I am not suggesting P borrowed and adapted
actually, unless homage, but more the
separate creations of genius wordsmiths who loved
playing tricks with character names.)
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