#augustine i applaud the joke and i am saddened that harrow literally could not get it

[straight-as-my-spine]

"Just believe me when I say that when I want Ortus to go, he'll be Gide-gone." This did not make much sense to you as a joke.

so I was listening to the HtN audiobook today (my first of probably many rereads) and the fact that you can only understand this stupid name pun on reread once you know about the whole Ortus = Gideon ctrl-f replace situation in Harrow's lobotomized brain is amazing.