Cisgatten Fallbazz lived off the London
Goldhawk Road in a house fronted by a monkey-puzzle
tree. He was a designer and manufacturer of VUE novelties. Soon after the
VUE, Cisgatten had bought a licence to sell bird-hats, and he manufactured avian
upholstery for several years until The Responsibility of Birds Theory became
commonplace. He turned to the children's toy market, and in partnership with his
brother, Agrendo,
was very successful.
Thanks to the VUE, Cisgatten was
perpetually obliged to wear rubber-gloves to stop his hands from drying out. The
VUE had also robbed him of his sense of smell and impaired his sight, though
apparently not at night. His enemies and competitors called him Moreau Fallbazz,
and accused him of conducting experiments on birds to make the species
interchangeable. They suggested he kept owls illegally at the back of his house,
and that his brother had committed suicide for fear of prosecution.
The brothers had bought a cottage on the Lleyn
Peninsula, since burned down, where Cisgatten had met Cathine
Fallbutus, a childhood acquaintance. They had both gone to the same primary
school in the Goldhawk Road. Against his brother's aggressive opposition,
Cisgatten had proposed marriage to Cathine. Now that
his brother was conveniently out of the way, Cisgatten is keen to approach Cathine
Fallbutus a second time.
