Petra Mountjoy
Character
Diversity-Compliance manager and apostle of the chemical option. Hires Colloid, poisons the pool in the name of standards and survives long enough to look embittered about it.
Appears in
- Amoeba Dick chapters:
- 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 Integration of Farokh the Engineer, and a Further Procedure Involving Napalm
- The Depredations Against the Christians by Diocletian and Galierianus.
- Iphigenia at Aulis, Sedated with Methohexital or Possibly Sodium Thiopental.
- Jupiter Spends a Penny; Little Mention of Danaë
Connections
Meets
- Colloid hires (2 passages)
From the books (8 passages)
- Jesus, said Petra Mountjoy, what a fucking gorilla.
…Then the double doors swinging open, this time to reveal – who else? – Petra Mountjoy.
Herod beheld with some evident indignation the travails of Farokh the Engineer. Petra Mountjoy noticed his expression, and ventured to explain:
…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.
It was evident that, for once, Petra Mountjoy had caught the public mood. There was a gathering murmur of assent. Hands extended like pseudopods from that granular foule of humanity, and extruded Stig O'Dump, Mr Luvvertory also, to stand alongside Colloid at the front. These then poured the libations into the roaring well where the cockwashers crouched and, as we may suppose, had resumed the washing of their nethers, withal…
…These happened to be an ill-assorted trio consisting of Petra Mountjoy, her restive subordinate Colloid, and Onanisticles the scagsmith and quondam factotum to Ianeass the Gimp, whom the latter had evidently, notwithstanding his initial disappointment, dredged up from his cockwashing duties in the bowels of Pex ‘n’ Quads. These four performed an elaborate sort of counterpoint with one another, Ianeass laughing and pointing and egging on his companions to share…
…the scene, I found Rodolfo Mather-Steiner balanced on one foot, leaning for support on the not-unredoubtable form of Petra Mountjoy. One shoe, sundered from its wearer, bore the mark, inevitably, of the Phantom Crapper’s foulness. Those two personages as I approached, looked daggers at me, for it was evident that they yet harboured strong suspicions as to my complicity in the case. I steadfastly met their gaze, and said then
* Finally, Petra Mountjoy had hired the local franchisee of a multinational services company called Multinational Services (Local Franchises) plc. The local franchisee of Multinational Services (Local Franchises) plc was called Colloid, who in this capacity presided over a corporate organism by the name of Multinational Services (Local Franchises) Bristol Ltd. Multinational Services (Local Franchises) Bristol Ltd is not to be confused with Multinational Services Local Franchises (Bristol) Ltd, over…