Edsel B. Grimshaw

A literary critic of McKay's Magazine and longtime antagonist of V. M. Straka. He was one of those who savaged the Ship of Theseus and he famously ripped it to pieces. He complained that the events of the book were too convenient to be realistic. He attributed the similarities to Straka's previous works to laziness and egotism.

He particularly hated p. 106 as "contemptuous of readerly desire" to digress from the present action.