It opens with the arrival of Jeremy Pordage, who is hired by the protagonist to catalog the papers of Charles Hauberk, whose extreme longevity is due to his diet of carp intestines.
As a student, the protagonist of this novel is nicknamed "Slob" and "Jelly-Belly." Peter Boone is shot by the protagonist in a rage over an affair with Virginia Maunciple, although it was actually Dr. Obispo who had seduced her. It opens with the arrival of Jeremy Pordage, who is hired by the protagonist to catalog the papers of Charles Hauberk, whose extreme longevity is due to his diet of carp intestines. Following the millionaire Jo Stoyte's quest for eternal life, for 10 points, what is this Aldous Huxley novel whose title is taken from Tennyson's poem "Tithonus"?
As a student, the protagonist of this novel is nicknamed "Slob" and "Jelly-Belly."
{After Many a Summer Dies the Swan}