Nero Cesare

But these dissenting voices were abruptly silenced by somebody, Nero Cesare I think, giving Guy Pigge a shove. He floundered awkwardly into the jacuzzi, and stood in the middle, bending over slightly, hands clutched to his groyne. You could not look at the expression on his face without turning to stone.

…John Virgil obtained the requisite signatures; from Nero Cesare, by dint of showing him the contents of his bucket – no invitation to his windowless office being deemed necessary; and from Petra Mountjoy very willingly, that harridan still smarting with indignation over the undermining of her authority in the matter of the apprehension, torture and liberation of Farokh the Engineer.

- Porca Madonna! said Nero Cesare his eyes streaming, Santa Kaka! E la peste de Cipriano.

Nero Cesare was the decurion or standard-bearer for the interpretationist faction. This purveyor of natural, organic and demented New Age woo ever manifested the natural, organic and demented New Age predilection for specious and egregious unreason, and for arraying the gaudiest hypotheses in the drab vestments of established fact. In the present case, Nero Cesare developed a fixation with the Parsee, that is to say Zoroastrian heritage of Farokh the…

* Unlike his colleague and somewhat to his own credit, Nero Cesare saw no logic or value in homoeopathy, and no connection between homoeopathy and being organic. Which was perfectly reasonable as far as it went, but didn’t stop him being neck-deep in the woo anyway, such was the purity of his zeal for being organic. For Nero Cesare, being organic meant eschewing many of the more chemical that is…