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Tytus Broz
Iwan Krol is one of the novel’s antagonists; he’s Tytus Broz’s henchman. The first time Eli meets him, he thinks that Iwan looks like he’s made of stone, as he seems like a hard and cold man. Eli learns that night that his assessment is probably correct. According to Darren Dang, Iwan runs a llama farm by day, and by night his job is to look disturbing for Tytus. When people get on Tytus’s bad side, Darren insists, Iwan is the one to dismember them while they’re still alive and take the pieces to Tytus. The rumors about what other terrible things he’s done to people are so wild that it’s impossible to tell what one should believe about him. Eli leaves this conversation with Darren with a healthy fear of Iwan. Months later, Iwan helps Tytus drag Lyle away and then, at Tytus’s signal, cuts Eli’s lucky finger off. Iwan continues to haunt Eli’s dreams for years after this. But it’s not until Eli is 19 that he gets proof that Iwan is just as terrifying as Darren said he was. Eli and Caitlyn discover an underground bunker on Tytus’s property, filled with the preserved body parts of “small-time criminals” that Iwan seems to have dismembered for his boss. Eli discovers Lyle’s head there, in addition to his own finger. Iwan stabs Eli later at the Queensland Day awards ceremony, but Eli survives the ordeal by hitting Iwan over the head with the specimen jar containing his lucky finger.
Iwan Krol Quotes in Boy Swallows Universe
The Boy Swallows Universe quotes below are all either spoken by Iwan Krol or refer to Iwan Krol. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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So the freckle is always consciousness. My personal big bang. The lounge. The yellow and brown shirt. And I arrive. I am here. I told Slim I thought the rest was questionable, that the four years before that moment might as well have never happened. Slim smiled when I told him that. He said that freckle on my right forefinger knuckle is home.
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Boy Conquers Moon
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“Yeah, it’s dead,” I say.
“Stupid bird seemed so determined to kill itself,” he says.
Caitlyn slaps her hands.
“Wren!” she says. “I remember now! That’s a wren.”
And with that, the dead blue wren comes back. Like it was just waiting for Caitlyn Spies to recognise it, because, like all living things—like me, me, me—it lives and dies on her breath and her attention.
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“I know you’re just the voice in my head,” I say. “You’re a figment of my imagination. I use you to escape from moments of great trauma.”
“Escape?” the man echoes. “What, like Slim over the Boggo Road walls? Escape from yourself, Eli, do ya, like the Houdini of your own mind?”
“773 8173,” I say. “That’s just the number we’d tap into the calculator when we were kids. That’s just ‘Eli Bell’ upside down and back to front.”
“Brilliant!” the man says. “Upside down and back to front, like the universe, hey Eli? You still got the axe?”
“Yes.”
“Good,” the man says. “He’s coming, Eli.”
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Iwan Krol Quotes in Boy Swallows Universe
The Boy Swallows Universe quotes below are all either spoken by Iwan Krol or refer to Iwan Krol. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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So the freckle is always consciousness. My personal big bang. The lounge. The yellow and brown shirt. And I arrive. I am here. I told Slim I thought the rest was questionable, that the four years before that moment might as well have never happened. Slim smiled when I told him that. He said that freckle on my right forefinger knuckle is home.
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Boy Conquers Moon
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“Yeah, it’s dead,” I say.
“Stupid bird seemed so determined to kill itself,” he says.
Caitlyn slaps her hands.
“Wren!” she says. “I remember now! That’s a wren.”
And with that, the dead blue wren comes back. Like it was just waiting for Caitlyn Spies to recognise it, because, like all living things—like me, me, me—it lives and dies on her breath and her attention.
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“I know you’re just the voice in my head,” I say. “You’re a figment of my imagination. I use you to escape from moments of great trauma.”
“Escape?” the man echoes. “What, like Slim over the Boggo Road walls? Escape from yourself, Eli, do ya, like the Houdini of your own mind?”
“773 8173,” I say. “That’s just the number we’d tap into the calculator when we were kids. That’s just ‘Eli Bell’ upside down and back to front.”
“Brilliant!” the man says. “Upside down and back to front, like the universe, hey Eli? You still got the axe?”
“Yes.”
“Good,” the man says. “He’s coming, Eli.”
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