Short Fiction · Character
Azuma-zi
A brown-skinned stranger from the East who tends Holroyd's great dynamo and begins to hear a god in its ceaseless thunder.
supporting
Also known as Azuma
First appearance: The Lord of the Dynamos
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Holroyd's helper from the mysterious East, who comes to worship the dynamo as a god and sacrifices Holroyd to it.
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Azuma-zi arrives in London out of the stokehole of the Lord Clive, drawn by tales of a city where even beggars are white, and ends up penniless, half-mute in English, and bullied in a Camberwell dynamo shed. His…
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- Other
Character groups
- Dynamos and dreams
- Protagonist
- Prehistoric survival story
- Fantastical experiments and doors
- Love and experiments
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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See Azuma-zi in The Lord of the Dynamos