This character calls Baudelaire a “bourgeois malgre lui” and Verlaine an “epicier malgre lui” while claiming to “owe nothing to France.” Another character asks, “How can one draw a [person] who doesn’t exist?” after this character tells of their plan to write a book with no title. A poem by this character, which describes how “strange forms and epicene (15[1])/ Lie bleeding in the dust, / Being wounded with wounds,” uses the phrase “nor not” in place of “and.” That poem ends with the line in all capitals, (*) “Thou hast not been nor art.” This character, who includes “Catholic diabolist” poems in the collection Fungoids, (10[1])is (10[1])called an “imaginary character” (10[3])in a phonetically-spelled passage from an encyclopedia of English literature. For 10 points, name this character who is transported to the British Museum’s (10[1])reading (10[1])room (10[1])on June 3, 1997 after making a deal with the devil in a story by Max Beerbohm. ■END■