Colloid
Character
Chemical rude mechanical and corporate nematode. Presides over several nearly identical companies, services Charybdis without sentiment and treats colleagues in much the same way.
Appears in
- Amoeba Dick chapters:
- The Integration of Farokh the Engineer, and a Further Procedure Involving Napalm
- The Depredations Against the Christians by Diocletian and Galierianus.
- Ecdysis: the Slough of Dives.
- The Parsee Comes to Know the Power of the Dark Cider.
- Certain Prognoses Regarding the Identity of the Phantom Crapper
- I Am Not Spartacus
Connections
Meets
- Agape Wydon associate of (2 passages)
- Petra Mountjoy hired by (2 passages)
Linguistic associations
- Aeromonas hydrophila investigates (1 passage)
From the books (9 passages)
Colloid looked as though he was choking.
…I noticed that I was not alone in my sorrows, for mirabile dictu Colloid also shed a tear; an access of emotion rarely observed in one with his psychopathic tendencies. Withal, Strapon was 12. He made his choice, the algorithm was devised, and in such wise the fates spoke.
…John Virgil Haruspex grew impatient at this further prevarication and, with the help of Colloid who entertained no scruples whatsoever in regard to the manhandling of elderly nudists, roughly propelled the martyrs up the steps and into the roaring din and foam. Peggy lifted an elephantine leg, let loose a stentorian not to say pachydermous fart, and laughed dementedly, our confined corner of the spa filling with the stench of…
- Running into the fuckin’ sand, sneered Colloid, wiping his thick smudged glasses with a snotty wankerchief, and replacing them on his big shiny nose.
…Images of John Virgil Haruspex and of Colloid were then by some agency presented to her inner speculum. John Virgil would not do at all. Come on! You can’t show contyents of bucket to Meester Beelyonaire. So unsopheestikyetid!
The foremost proponent of literalism was as ever Colloid, who appealed to a remark in a research paper [Mulholland & Yong-Hee 2008, q.v. ch9 above] concerning an outbreak of hot-tub-associated A.hydrophila folliculitis, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Brisbane case’. The substance of this passing remark was that the male of the two victims in the Brisbane case reported the presence of what he described as earthworms in the pipes of…
…also undertaking those ghastly alarmingly frank yoga posing classes with the ladies who lunched. Analogous considerations applied to Colloid (staff member with beneficial interests via shareholdings of nematodes and nominee functions) as well as, I rather thought, John Virgil Haruspex (staff member, possibly shareholder in view of opaquely discerned relationship to Peggy), and no doubt any number of other comparably unpleasant people; and
…as some bruited the sixth, decade of her passage across this mangrove or Stygian Marsh of woe. Like Colloid, she enjoyed mucking about with corporate molluscs and nematodes; indeed she was betimes his associate in a range of joint ventures, and eke betimes a sexual partner of that psychopath, whose ruthlessness she strove to match. I think that she aspired to be considered as his Lady Macbeth, wishing him to…
…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 which Colloid also presided, albeit via a nominee viz. Multinational Services (Local Franchises) Bristol plc. Nor are any of these…