 The poem was signed Bison Ravi ("Delighted Bison"), an anagram of Vian's real name.The same year Vian's father died, murdered at home by burglars.In 1944 Vian completed "Vercoquin et le plancton" (Vercoquin and the Plankton), a novel inspired partly by surprise-parties of his youth and partly by his job at the AFNOR (which is heavily satirized in the novel).