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IN THIS BOOK YOU WILL FIND ONLY REAL PEOPLE AND REAL PLACES, BUT NO REAL NAMES

LIST OF PRINCIPAL PERSONALITIES

FRANK RUFUS HEWITT, Adjutant General; U.S. Army, (Ret.) Historian, Counter Intelligence; former operative, and sometime educationist.

CORIOLAN IULUS PZALMANAZAR, Ambassador Without Portfolio for Cannonia, and inadvertently, the last casualty of the last war of the twentieth century, and the first great writer of the twenty-first.

FELIX AUFIDIUS PZALMANAZAR, Hauptzuchtwart Supreme, thinking man’s dandy, historian of the Astingi.

AINÖHA AEGLE APAMEA, Fairest of the Naiad line, Goddess of Fogs, Muse of the Living, Mistress of the Dead.

PRIAM ASCLEPIUS APAMEA, founder of Semper Vero.

ÖSCAR ÖLIVIER ÖZGUR, citizen soldier, loyal retainer, and exemplary gardener.

COUNT MORITZ ACHILLES ZICH, Foreign Minister of Cannonia, patron of the arts, the greatest one-armed pianist of all time, and the most intense admirer of the female sex in Europe.

OPHAR OSME CATSPAW, artist-in-residence at Semper Vero.

SETH SYLVIUS GUBIK, swineherd, prodigy, and future Commisar for Cults and Education.

PSYLANDER SYCHAEUS PÜR, the village doctor.

THE PROFESSOR (ORDINARIUS), Docent fur Nervenkrankheiten, A.D. Universitat Therapeia.

DRUSOC’S MISTRESS, one of the Professor’s love interests.

ZANÄIA, a princess of Cannonia.

CANNONIA, our ineffable tragi-comic protagonist, superior to tragedy.

Venit iam carminus aetas:

Magnus ab intego saeclorum nascitur ordo

Now is come the last age;

the great line of centuries

begins anew

Virgil, Eclogues