CoXiX Charactaturian



The following people appear in the pages of the CoXiX blog

a)   Lucien Jung (aka: the Black Prince) – artistic director of The Global Brickworks, and coordinator of the Old Chapel Arts Centre

b)   Jorvik Stilten - recent arrival at Seven Dials, editor of the Nordic cultural newsletter. He is also a practicing chiropractic, and coccyx researcher

c)   Frab (Ferabdurus Lotus) – counter-tenor and Reikarial Therapist, civil partner of Felix, part-owner of Zangwill’s Bazaar of Curiosities

d)   Malvolio Claxendell – tone-deaf inventor of the Vacuum Desog, the TAPIT (Touch Photograph in Three-dimensions) and the infamous Leecock-Proust mechanism, and member of the Institute of Lyrian Archeology, resident of Landora, a huge Regency pile

e)   Kugarita Zinfandel - SavNat saleswoman and biographer (daughter of Rabbi Oud Ramonides), married to (but separated from Etrog Zinfandel)

f)    Tabitha Atributeho - diminutive and occasional life-partner of Hedre, resident (together with Hedre) of the only surviving part of the Convent (a spacious self-contained studio, previously the cell of the late Sister Missikin)

g)   Felix Karlosoroff - moody but creative silk-screen-printer, lives in the delightful studio mews with his partner Frab, neighbour to Yevgeny Huxtable

h)   Yevgeny Huxtable - pianist and studio owner - neighbour of Felix and Frab

i)     Samuel Quinine, owner-manager of Yifitsin Print Bookshop

j)     Emelda Bush – fastidious cousin of a computer scientist, co-owner (with her husband Gustaf McSweeney) of Venus de Milo travel agency.

k)   Gustaf McSweeney – retired teacher, husband of Emelda Bush, manager of Venus de Milo trael, and owner of Scruffa, a stuffed Irish Wolfhound

l)     Magritude Feather – ever-suffering cleaner for Emelda and Gustaf

m) Sevelanz Grimple – militant moralist

n)   Sister Veracitude – ex- Mother Superior of the Cruxicogentes Convent of Theodora (Order of the Purple Relic)

o)   Hedre (aka Apolloddorus of Damascus) - in a previous life he was a great architect, occasional life-partner of Tabitha Atibuteho

p)   Augustus Albi – teacher of Creaive Thuikning at the local FE college (Hedre and Albi are particularly close as they share literary aspirations and failings)

q)   Reverend Lanzarotte, vicar of St. Scruples (C-of-E), secretly in love with Loretta

r)    Wolfram Bettel – uncle to Leporello Swinson

s)   Leporello Swinson - visitor to Seven Dials, fan of 20th century music

t)     Samuel Quinine - owner-manager of Yifitsin Print Bookshop

u)   Milton Ridley - activist, mature student currently writing a dissertation on Gender and Grammatical Syntax

v)   Prigentia Colswain - a precocious twelve year old princess

w)  The Young Kimrock - a young toy sprout leader, aspirant boyfriend of Prigentia

x)   Grapella Colswain - Prigentia's mother, Sister Ethel's Sister

y)   Ruham Alif - electrician, handsome, known locally as 'the ox'

z)   Hamentash Yumble – artist, famed for his chiaroscuro drip method


aa)               Sergeant Alicia Drublick - local community policewoman 









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