Professor Panky

My Father

Professor Panky is a manipulative rival who schemes against my father.

Yram

Professor Panky exerts manipulative control over Yram, exploiting her for his own ends.

Professor Hanky

They are colleagues in the Erewhonian academic establishment, often collaborating in their schemes.

The Narrator

Professor Panky is a deceptive opponent who tries to undermine the narrator's mission.

George

George actively works against Professor Panky's manipulative plans.

Yram

Professor Panky exerts manipulative control over Yram, exploiting her for his own ends.

My Father

Professor Panky is a manipulative rival who schemes against my father.

George

George actively works against Professor Panky's manipulative plans.

The Narrator

Professor Panky is a deceptive opponent who tries to undermine the narrator's mission.

Professor Hanky

They are colleagues in the Erewhonian academic establishment, often collaborating in their schemes.

Professor Hanky

They are colleagues in the Erewhonian academic establishment, often collaborating in their schemes.

The Narrator

Professor Panky is a deceptive opponent who tries to undermine the narrator's mission.

III: My Father While Camping Is Accosted by Professors Hanky and Panky

The other professor; initially suspicious of my father but is deceived by his quick lies.

My Father Overhears More of Hanky and Panky’s Conversation

Insists on a receipt, proposes a corrupt reading of the prayer, and becomes suspicious of my father's boots.

V: My Father Meets a Son, of Whose Existence He Was Ignorant; and Strikes a Bargain with Him

The other professor; his reversed clothes and watch are noted by Higgs as clues to Erewhonian changes.

VI: Further Conversation Between Father and Son—The Professors’ Hoard

Implied to be Higgs's alias; Higgs reflects on being Panky when hearing of Hanky's actions.

Signs of the New Order of Things Catch My Father’s Eye on Every Side

Mentioned alongside Hanky as the buyer of Higgs's property.

VIII: Yram, Now Mayoress, Gives a Dinner-Party, in the Course of Which She Is Disquieted by What She Learns from Professor Hanky: She Sends for Her Son George and Questions Him

Accompanies Hanky to the dinner and confirms their forest adventure.

Interview Between Yram and Her Son

The alias used by Higgs when meeting George; later revealed to be Higgs himself.

President Gurgoyle’s Pamphlet “On the Physics of Vicarious Existence”

Mentioned as someone who could not manipulate Higgs's teaching more freely than Gurgoyle did.

XII: George Fails to Find My Father, Whereon Yram Cautions the Professors

Panky attempts to argue that Higgs is not the Sunchild but is overruled by Hanky, showing his complicity in the cover-up.

A Visit to the Provincial Deformatory at Fairmead

Mentioned alongside Hanky as a source of the esoteric reinterpretation of the Sunchild's sayings; Higgs avoids him.

XIV: My Father Makes the Acquaintance of Mr. Balmy, and Walks with Him Next Day to Sunch’ston

Mentioned alongside Hanky as part of the Bridgeford committee that compromised with the King to establish Sunchildism.

XV: The Temple Is Dedicated to My Father, and Certain Extracts Are Read from His Supposed Sayings

Mentioned alongside Hanky as corrupted by the Sunchild's deception; George addresses my father as 'Professor Panky.'

George Takes His Father to Prison, and There Obtains Some Useful Information

Panky is mentioned alongside Hanky as having dined with Yram and provided information that led to Higgs's identification.

Yram Invites Dr. Downie and Mrs. Humdrum to Luncheon—A Passage at Arms Between Her and Hanky Is Amicably Arranged

Urges Hanky to apologize and is morally in a state of collapse.

A Council Is Held at the Mayor’s, in the Course of Which George Turns the Tables on the Professors

Panky is muddled and hors de combat; he breaks down in tears and eventually stammers 'compromise' when faced with the Blue-Pool threat.

Mrs. Humdrum and Dr. Downie Propose a Compromise, Which, After an Amendment by George, Is Carried Nem. Con.

Initially hesitant but eventually signs the depositions after receiving his money back.

Yram, on Getting Rid of Her Guests, Goes to the Prison to See My Father

Mentioned alongside Hanky as part of the deception.

XXII: Mainly Occupied with a Veracious Extract from a Sunch’stonian Journal

Present at the arrest and trial; too exhausted to speak at the banquet, excused by the Mayor.

After Dinner, Dr. Downie and the Professors Would Be Glad to Know What Is to Be Done About Sunchildism

Asks Higgs about a textual corruption; receives a vague answer and goes away contentedly.

George Escorts My Father to the Statues; The Two Then Part

Described as needing to persuade himself of his own lies before telling them, and as being led by Hanky.

George and I Spend a Few Hours Together at the Statues, and Then Part—I Reach Home—Postscript

Remains silent during the King's interview; later noted as dead, succeeded by his son Pocus.