That is why he responded to the clarion call of “Glorf!”. It is the Chaddertonian pronunciation of “Glorb!”.

Peter Ackroyd keeps telling my fingers to type Chatterton, rather than Chadderton but I will have none of it. Hmmm… I just read that the eponymous Chatterton once fell in to an open grave while distracted-while-thinking. Surely some overlap here.

A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears.