Short Fiction · Character
Doctor Ponnonner
A fussy, enthusiastic little physician whose passion for galvanic experiments and unwrapping parties turns a parlor demonstration into an audience with antiquity itself.
supporting
Also known as Ponnonner, little Doctor Ponnonner
First appearance: Some Words with a Mummy
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Doctor Ponnonner has obtained permission to examine the mummy and hosts the gathering at his house.
Doctor Ponnonner moves through the drawing rooms of the curious, the sort of man who proposes to unwrap a mummy the way others propose a card game. His eager, slightly pompous hospitality drives the evening's entertainment, and his confidence in his own science makes him the perfect host for an experiment no one can quite predict. What begins as a learned amusement becomes a test of whether modern men can bear being examined by their own past.
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- Protagonist
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professional · ambivalent
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professional · ambivalent
Doctor Ponnonner is a scientific colleague who involves the narrator in experiments and… How this plays out →
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professional · ambivalent
Doctor Ponnonner is a scientific colleague who involves the narrator in experiments and… How this plays out →
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