This character refers to absinthe as "the glaucous witch," or "la sorciere glauque," in one of his many slips into French. The narrator decides that either "hungry" or "dim" is "le mot juste" for this character, who claims to read Shelley in domino rooms to break up his "evenness." This character writes a poem that describes the sounds of "cymbals rouged with rust" and ends "THOU HAST NOT BEEN NOR ART!" Negations and Fungoids are among the books by this character, a self-described "Catholic Diabolist" who is first encou
This character refers to absinthe as "the glaucous witch," or "la sorciere glauque," in one of his many slips into French. The narrator decides that either "hungry" or "dim" is "le mot juste" for this character, who claims to read Shelley in domino rooms to break up his "evenness." This character writes a poem that describes the sounds of "cymbals rouged with rust" and ends "THOU HAST NOT BEEN NOR ART!" Negations and Fungoids are among the books by this character, a self-described "Catholic Diabolist" who is first encountered during the narrator's dinner with the painter Rothenstein. This character is horrified to find the words "immajnari karrakter" in a book by T.K. Nupton after a "Mephistophelean man" sends him to the British Museum's Reading Room on June 3, 1997, where he attempts to look himself up. For 10 points, name this failed author who makes a deal with the devil only to learn that, in the future, he is only remembered as the title character of a story by Max Beerbohm.