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Upokoev
A friend of Panikhidin's, said to have later shot himself; his name derives from 'upokoit' (to lay to rest, of the dead), continuing the story's morbid-name joke.
Reading notes
- A Terrible Night §87 Upokoev's
A friend of the narrator's, later said to have shot himself; his name derives from upokoit (to lay a soul to rest), continuing the story's necronymic humor.