The Serpent (Banya Snake)
Artefact
Phallic serpent of the Charybdis episode. Whether object, anatomy or metaphor is precisely the joke.
Appears in
- Helix Folt, the Conservative chapters:
From the books (1 passage)
Very soon after this, the back door opens and presents for the world’s delectation the proboscis followed promptly by the remainder of Dr Mark Wankstain. The Mangotsfield Actaeon makes a show of looking casually about the garden and, upon as it were chancing to discern the head and shoulders of Ms. Gamina Dročerpyatova where yet that nymph reposes wreathed in the steam of Charybdis, thereat assiduously plasters across his fizzog…