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"Bam-Bam" — a datum for Day's class survey

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texture · ?/14 Nov YDAU

  • When: ?/14 Nov YDAU (Day's journal-register scene; the confession itself is undated House life).
  • What: In Geoffrey Day's journal survey of male residents' "special little cognomens for their genitals" (which Day reads as a class marker — neither he nor Ewell nor Erdedy have named their Units), Foss's contribution is on record: "Chandler Foss confessed to the moniker 'Bam-Bam.'" The verb is Day's — the datum was extracted, not volunteered — and it files Foss firmly on the House's unpretentious side of Day's class line, alongside Glynn's "Poor Richard" and Minty's "Fang."