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[[File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|thumb|Mountain vendetta. The prone figure in the foreground is Havelock, the only person is this picture who survived the event.]]'''Havelock''' is a man.
[[File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|thumb|Mountain vendetta. The prone figure in the foreground is Havelock, the only person is this picture who survived the event.]]'''Havelock''' is a man.


== Nomenclature ==
== First person ==


"Call me Havelock" would make a true point.  But it's not good enough.
I get too edit my own wiki page and use the first person, because [[Karl]] is a close personal friend.
 
I have thought to play Ishmael. But no.  That's not good enough. It doesn't go far enough. [[Melville]] meant well, but he couldn't finish the job.
 
A man needs a name, if he is to belong to the world, and the world to him.
 
A man without a name, without the power of names, suffers [[anomie (nonfiction)]].
 
You need a name for me.  I need a name for myself.
 
For the mind that must give names, everything needs a name.
 
(Memo to mind:  take occasional time outs: stop naming, relax, meditate.  Then get back to it, refreshed.)
 
Man gave names to all the animals.  Still does.
 
Man gives names to all that he can name.


== The Man Who Doesn't Get Killed ==
== The Man Who Doesn't Get Killed ==


You probably know me as "The Man Who Doesn't Get Killed," something like that, and not as some old guy who goes on about the [[Old Testament (nonfiction)]] and [[Herman Melville (nonfiction)]].
You probably know me as "The Man Who Doesn't Get Killed," something like that.


Please do not ever refer to me as "The man who can't be killed." I always said that wasn't true, from the beginning.  It causes nothing but attempts on my life, and it's gotten a lot of good and undeserving people murdered, so enough already.
Please do not ever refer to me as "The man who can't be killed."


This is the twenty-first century, not the agriculture-through-industrialism nation-state building phase.  Many of the old problems no longer apply, and we should stop behaving as if they do.
I always said that wasn't true, from the beginning.  It causes nothing but attempts on my life, and it's gotten a lot of good and undeserving people murdered, so enough already.
 
As for the new problems, I will come back to that in a while.


== Hollerith ==
== Hollerith ==
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He is The Card Man.  He has Cards.  You want Cards.  Simple.  Don't mess with The Card Man, please.
He is The Card Man.  He has Cards.  You want Cards.  Simple.  Don't mess with The Card Man, please.
== Luck-monger ==
Some people call him [[Luck-monger]].


== The Patrick Device ==
== The Patrick Device ==


[[The Patrick Device]] was invented for me by my friend [[Patrick Ladwig (nonfiction)]].
[[The Patrick Device]] was invented for me by my friend [[Patrick Ladwig (nonfiction)]], for which he has my thanks.


== Salvatore ==
== Salvatore ==


Havelock and [[Salvatore]] have been friends for a long time.
[[Salvatore]] and I have been friends for a long time.


== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==

Revision as of 13:00, 30 May 2016

Mountain vendetta. The prone figure in the foreground is Havelock, the only person is this picture who survived the event.

Havelock is a man.

First person

I get too edit my own wiki page and use the first person, because Karl is a close personal friend.

The Man Who Doesn't Get Killed

You probably know me as "The Man Who Doesn't Get Killed," something like that.

Please do not ever refer to me as "The man who can't be killed."

I always said that wasn't true, from the beginning. It causes nothing but attempts on my life, and it's gotten a lot of good and undeserving people murdered, so enough already.

Hollerith

Hollerith is a personal friend of mine, and I need him to keep doing business, so please accord to him the same "Man who doesn't get killed" status that you do for me.

He is The Card Man. He has Cards. You want Cards. Simple. Don't mess with The Card Man, please.

The Patrick Device

The Patrick Device was invented for me by my friend Patrick Ladwig (nonfiction), for which he has my thanks.

Salvatore

Salvatore and I have been friends for a long time.

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

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