Dives the billionaire
Character
Also appears as: Dives the Billionaire
Billionaire, spa client and involuntary ecdysiast. Money secures deference, sulphurs and rub ‘n’ tugs; the skin, less impressed by capital, departs first.
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From the books (4 passages)
Whilst events were yet in this amphetamine flux, came there Dives the billionaire – nobody knew whence – to partake of the sulphurs and the rub ‘n’ tugs; and also in the maiouma foretold by false prophet-bots on Google; Dives the billionaire having been beguiled by John Virgil Haruspex with the blatant canard that this event would be going ahead, i.e. that Charybdis would be somehow induced to blockade and…
…For a start, there was the vexed question of Dives the billionaire. His taciturn Praetorians, whom Gilles de Pantalon-Rouge had summoned to assist in breaking down the door to the Spa Elysium, eventually found that slougher of skin under a pile of bodies, face-down, either suffocated or drowned - it was hard and also nugatory to decide which - in the muck which puddled the salon floor. A discreet gentleman…
Across the table from the two knights reclined, or rather, perhaps, relapsed, the potentate who was Dives the Billionaire. This gentleman, who was rumoured to be a Tajik or a Turkoman, but who may equally have been West African Armenian or Lebanese, was in the UK on a flying visit to his dermatologist, this being necessitated by the recurrent ecdysis to which he was a martyr. He now evinced a…
…Sir Hearty Luncheon happened to be ensconced, in company with one Dives the billionaire, in the back of the Lexus being at that vey instant by Mr Jagtar Singh steered along that vey thoroughfare. Now, Sir Hearty happening to glance out of the window at all the unbearable cant blossoming obscenely without, the great panjandrum espied Mr Don Quicksotte perambulating, and was disturbed by his vision.