Mr. Vagus
Character
Also appears as: Mr Vagus, Mr Vagus’s
Cabinet-maker, reliquary dealer, bankrupt and recurrent lavatorial man of letters. Sometimes dead, sometimes merely absent, he leaves behind the manuscripts by which the Cravenverse keeps renewing its paperwork.
Appears in
- Amoeba Dick chapters:
- Odour Issues
- Pretty Poli chapters:
Connections
Meets
- Dr R_C_ ← administers estate of (1 passage)
- Pretty Poli framing narrator ← expects to meet (1 passage)
- The thin man ← substitutes for (1 passage)
Attends
- Filton Avenue former residence at (1 passage)
- Mr Vagus’s Horfield workshop operates at (1 passage)
- The room above Mr. Vagus’s shop found dead at (1 passage)
Literary echoes
- Helix toilet-roll manuscript attributed author of (1 passage)
- Mr Vagus’s Great Book attributed author of (1 passage)
- Pretty Poli toilet-roll manuscript attributed author of (2 passages)
- The manuscript attributed author of (1 passage)
From the books (2 passages)
Mr Vagus, who knocked up cabinets and other oddments, and was otherwise a dealer in reliquaries, died an undischarged bankrupt. I never had the honour of his acquaintance, but I imagine him to have been a fat and wheezing chump. It fell to me, as an insolvency practitioner and all-round resolver of inefficiently-prosecuted affairs, to assess what of Mr Vagus’s effects could be salvaged for the duns, and whether perchance…
…We pay for it. Was you waitin’ for Mr Vagus?”