Proof That Novelists Have Been Getting Tired of Naming Minor Characters Since At Least 1872

[snurri]

"the fine old-blooded idiocy of young Lord Tapir, and the furious gouty humors of old Lord Megatherium"

- Middlemarch, George (Mary Ann) Eliot (Evans Cross)

Comments

[snurri.livejournal.com]

You realize that I am going to be calling you Lord Megatherium for the rest of our lives, now.

[giantsloth.livejournal.com]

I'm cool with that, Mister Heffylump. Monsieur Oliphaunt?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

The Colonel once referred to me as "Brother Tantor"; that was pretty good.