Besides the secret handshake, he sounds just a wee bit like Laughing One, wouldn’t you say, with the wordplay, irony and ridiculous jests. Remember these?
Half of what You Read Here is True
Navajo Transliterated into Sanscrit
Welcome, “Oxadrenals!” — Kate
P.S. Also, not only is “oxadrenals” an anagram of the real name we are miswriting as Antipollus, people take extract of ox adrenal glands as a natural supplement to live longer. This is really very, very clever!
I had been reaching for a triple meaning, though upon sober consideration it appears I may have tripped over my pretensions and fizzed flat. “Ox adrenals” are used not only for life extension but also for enhancing virility, and the latter is a quality for which in the privacy of my own mind I am wildly famous. And yet, if it were as my vanity would have it, why would I need the ox help? Therefore, I shall hurriedly withdraw the third meaning. You never read this.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend is not always true. I haven’t read all of this story yet and I can already tell where it’s headed.