Starfield:Great Serpent Nations
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CHAPTER I
My father's family name being Pirrr'ip, and my given name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than P'ip. So, I called myself P'ip, and came to be called P'ip.
I give Pirrr'ip as my father's family name, on the authority of his death record and my sister, Mrs. Natala Volkar, who married a groat butcher. As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for they never consented to being photographed), my first fancies regarding what they were like were unreasonably derived from their funeral documents.
[Charok Va'ruun's thirteenth novel is the coming-of-age tale of an orphan boy named Pi'p as he navigates the agendas of those around him, like the eccentric Miss Havisham.]
