**Wowelfing: An embiggened version of the word Welfing, perhaps meaning a female Welfing by analogy with the English word “Woman”. This Welfing legend may have some ancient equivalence to the biblical story of Adam and Eve in Genesis 2:18 ff, the difference being that in Welfing mythology the first woman was not tempted and did not fall, instead killing the snake and eating it. Interestingly, Hai Ηαι has the same Gematria as חַוָּה Havah, or Eve, 19.
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Postword to Book the Second Cryptoloup
As P________ edited this book, he began to have severe doubts about whether Denethon actually even existed at all. P_______ is beginning to think he may not have. The paucity of information regarding Denethon’s life, the lack of governmental records, birth certificates, adoption records, census data, marriage licenses, scholastic, social security or tax information, the complete absence of anyone who ever knew him in the historical record… Alright, the author may have been reclusive, reactionary, paranoid, but even a recluse had biological parents.
Indeed, P______ is beginning to wonder if, perhaps, the very author of this work is as fictional as his creation. Surely Denethon is actually a pseudonym, a nom de plüme, a nom de guerre, an alias, a pen name, or some sort of assumed anonym, allonym, or ananym.
P_______ began to wonder if there were any acronyms that the name “Robert Denethon” could produce – perhaps such a literary code might be a clue.
What he found was amazing and extremely unhelpful towards P_____’s blood pressure: the number of acronyms the letters in the name “Robert Denethon” can produce is practically infinite. Here are just a few, out of the tens or hundreds of thousands that appear possible: Debtor Enthrone, Bothered No Rent, Berthed Neon Tor, Bend Hone Retort, even, Robed Nether Not. And Beret Dent Honor, Better Rondo Hen, Brother Den Note, and Betroth Nerd One.
And, astonishingly, when his oft-used middle initial was included, even more acronyms resulted. Some of the more bizarre and interesting were these: The Bronzed Tenor, Neon Hertz Debtor, Better Zoned Horn, Beret Zoned North, Betroth Nerd Zone, and Bend the Zen Rotor.
What does it all mean?
Of course, the plethora of possible acronyms is actually an argument against the name being some sort of code or acronym. How could one possibly tell which possible acronym was intended? Yet, on the other side of the argument, the similarity to the name of Tolkien’s character Denethor is an argument against this moniker being a nom de guerre. For who would choose such an admittedly unpleasant, unmemorable name as Denethon as a pseudonym? (Only a monkier of monikers, a mim of nyms.) Would one not be more likely to choose something more memorable, A.T.Winter, perhaps, or Llewellyn Jones, or N.W.Clerk or Mary Westmacott or suchlike?
And to further the mystery, no secret codes have thus far been discovered anywhere in the books, though they have been sought, believe me. Although this editor is still not ruling out the idea that certain obscure codes might find their placement in some parts of the books, the poetry, the prefaces or chapter headings, or even the dedications, perhaps, but thus far that particular line of inquiry has thus far proven completely fruitless.
Well, someone wrote these books. That much has to be admitted. It wasn’t a room full of monkeys, either. There is metaphor, allegory, theology in them. These are not the products of chance.
And at times the passion in the footnotes seems real – as though the poetry, in this work of almost constant fiction, is the one note of truth in it all.
Indeed, a mood of severe despair has taken hold of this editor, P________, from which it seems at this juncture he is never likely to recover. Well, not unless he has some very unlikely news soon – the news that will tell him who Denethon is, and who the mysterious target of Denethon’s amorous prose and poetry might be… He seems to have lost them both – he thought he knew at one time. But everything he knew about Denethon is false. And where is she? Does she even exist?
Soldier on, the editor P_______ tells himself. Do not dwell in the slough of despond, pick yourself up, haul yourself out of the quicksand, move onwards. The journey must go on.
Dedicated research and the application of the scientifick method may perhaps uncover the clue, where more literally literarily inclined efforts have thus far failed. Form an hypothesis, test it systematickally agin the facts, then if that hypothesis is contradicted nowhere in the facts, you have a workable theory.
Alas, alack, all that P____________ has thus far is hypotheses, endless hypotheses.
Postnote to the Postword
Some of these mysteries were solved, when the editor was working on book IV.
Postnote to the postnote to the postword.
Unfortunately, when the editor was working on Book V, all this information was found to be false.
The End of Book II
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