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and then betrays a noble and naïve heart, telling foul stories about his victim and pursuing him with brutal practical jokes, 741; his not being able, owing to some psychological block or the fear of a second G, of traveling to a city only sixty or seventy miles distant, where he would certainly have found a good library, 747; his letter of April 2, 1959, to a lady who left it locked up among her treasures in her villa near Nice when she went that summer to Rome, 768; divine service in the morning and ramble in the evening with the poet finally speaking of his work, 802; his remarks on a lexical and linguistic miracle, 803; his borrowing a collection of F. K. Lane’s letters from the motor court owner, 810; his penetrating into the bathroom where his friend sat and shaved in the tub, 887; his participation in a Common Room discussion of his resemblance to the King, and his final rupture with E. (not in the Index), 894; he and S shaking with mirth over tidbits in a college textbook by Prof. C. (not in the Index), 929; his sad gesture of weariness and gentle reproach, 937; a young lecturer in Onhava University vividly recollected, 957; his last meeting with S in the poet’s arbor, etc., 991; his discovery of the scholarly gardener recalled, 998; his unsuccessful attempt to save S’s life, and his success in salvaging the MS, 1000; his arranging to have it published without the help of two “experts,” Foreword.

Kobaltana, a once fashionable mountain resort near the ruins of some old barracks now a cold and desolate spot of difficult access and no importance but still remembered in military families and forest castles, not in the text.

Kronberg, a snow-capped rocky mountain with a comfortable hotel, in the Bera Range, 70, 130, 149.

Krummholz, Gordon, b.1944, a musical prodigy and an amusing pet; son of Joseph Lavender’s famous sister, Elvina Krummholz, 408.

Lane, Franklin Knight, American lawyer and statesman, 1864-1921, author of a remarkable fragment, 810.

Lass, see Mass.

Lavender, Joseph S., see O’Donnell, Sylvia.

Male, see Word Golf.

Mandevil, Baron Mirador, cousin of Radomir Mandevil (q.v.), experimentalist, madman and traitor, 171.

Mandevil, Baron Radomir, b.1925, man of fashion and Zemblan patriot; in 1936, K’s throne page, 130; in 1958, disguised, 149.

Marcel, the fussy, unpleasant, and not always plausible central character, pampered by everybody in Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, 181, 691.

Marrowsky, a, a rudimentary spoonerism, from the name of a Russian diplomat of the early 19th century, Count Komarovski, famous at foreign courts for mispronouncing his own name—Makarovski, Macaronski, Skomorovski, etc.

Mass, Mars, Mare, see Male.

Multraberg, see Bera.

Niagarin and Andronnikov, two Soviet “experts” still in quest of a buried treasure, 130, 681, 741; see Crown Jewels.

Nitra and Indra, twin islands off Blawick, 149.

Nodo, Odon’s half-brother, b. 1916, son of Leopold O’Donnell and of a Zemblan boy impersonator; a cardsharp and despicable traitor, 171.

Odevalla, a fine town north of Onhava in E. Zembla, once the mayorship of the worthy Zule (“chessrook”) Bretwit, grand-uncle of Oswin Bretwit (q.v., q.v., as the crows say), 149, 286.

Odon, pseudonym of Donald O’Donnell, b. 1915, world-famous actor and Zemblan patriot; learns from K. about secret passage but has to leave for theater, 130; drives K. from theater to foot of Mt. Mandevil, 149; meets K. near sea cave and escapes with him in motorboat, ibid.; directs cinema picture in Paris, 171; stays with Lavender in Lex, 408; ought not to marry that blubber-lipped cinemactress, with untidy hair, 691; see also O’Donnell, Sylvia.

O’Donnell, Sylvia, nee O’Connell, born 1895? 1890?, the much-traveled, much-married mother of Odon (q.v.), 149, 691; after marrying and divorcing college president Leopold O’Donnell in 1915, father of Odon, she married Peter Gusev, first Duke of Rahl, and graced Zembla till about 1925 when she married an Oriental prince met in Chamonix; after a number of other more or less glamorous marriages, she was in the act of divorcing