Stig O’Dump
Character
Natural-organic rude mechanical with a Landreaughver and a secret shame. Services Charybdis without chemicals, competence or unnecessary explanation.
Appears in
- Amoeba Dick chapters:
- Organisational Atrophy, Rude Mechanicals, and Rumour Painted Full of Tongues
- There are Tiers of Administration, and the Burdens of Mortality Touch the Heart
- Pheidippides in the Mezzanine, the Mystery of the Phantom Crapper, and Charybdis Burping Out a Sort of Gimp
- The Depredations Against the Christians by Diocletian and Galierianus.
From the books (4 passages)
* For his part, Nero Cesare had taken on Stig O'Dump, who came with the recommendation of a genuinely dreadful past in St Werbuggers, and was perhaps the Bacchus to Mr Luvvertory’s greasy beatitude. A very shuffling and self-effacing Bacchus too; silent on certain topics; avoiding pedagogy at all events. Stig O'Dump was gorgeously caparisoned with a Landreaughver, in which were as with Mr Luvvertory’s ambulance racks of pretended medicines,…
…was at this point a mild commotion amongst the assembled throng, and by some mysterious process was exuded Stig O'Dump, who now on daintily reluctant tippy-toes approached the neighbourhood of Charybdis, bearing in his tobacco-stained paws a derogate vial of some natural, organic provenance.
…And then the footsteps returned. The double doors swung open then, disclosing Stig O'Dump. This deviant wrung his hands, and addressed the following words to no one in particular.
…things, not wishing to attract attention to myself for fear that there might revive in the breast of Stig O'Dump that pervert’s groundless suspicion of my involvement in the Mystery of the Phantom Crapper.