Ilo Inca Ma Macromius Jubiladilia

Ilo, Ilo Inca Ma Macromius Jubiladilia, owner-manager of the Champion Sea Circus. Uncle of Heineman.

The rest of the mail was routine, but for a letter from Idosolaris. It was from Heineman's Uncle Ilo, Ilo Inca Ma Macromius Jubiladilia, owner-manager of the Champion Sea Circus. Two photos slipped out of the letter. One showed Ilo himself, unchanged since his last photo: same black hair, same luxuriant moustache (it had to be false!), same circus-master's swagger-stick. The second showed a woman in a swimsuit feeding a fish to a dolphin.
Heineman did not need to read the letter to know it contained the same old inviting promise: a job awaits you in Idosolaris. That offer was both temptation and a threat. As if he had already accepted that offer, he confronted the possibility of a future which would find him alone in the huge hollow night of a strange city. He imagined himself confronted, on some vital social occasion, by the bone biscuits of Idosolaris, or by a meal of bloodfruit and vomit-basted bats. His refusal to eat would be taken as - what? [EoH Ch15]

The photos were of Ilo Inca Ma Macromius Jubiladilia, eldest son of old man Zinjanthrop, who had run away to the Gulf of Heaven, and now ran the Champion Sea Circus in the seaport of Idosolaris. On the worst days of his life - the day he got married, for example - Heineman had pulled out these old photographs. And had indulged himself in a mad fantasy in which he ran away and joined his uncle's circus.
Now - [EoH Ch11]


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