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)

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[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Now if only there were Lords Toxodon and Glyptodont!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I wish to heaven she had put an actual giant ground sloth in the novel, wearing a snazzy hat.