Kashenblade
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General Kashenblade is a character in Stanislaw Lem's Novel Memoirs Found in a Bathtub.
He is the Commander in Chief of the Building.
His office (and so far his only appearance) is on the fourth level.
Appearance
powerful, bald old man
His head was perched upon the collar of his uniform; the bristling, many-folded jowls covered the galactic insignia and stripes like a bib
veins bulging on his shiny pate
powerful, hairy hand, the hand of an old soldier
the bushy brows knitted in a solemn squint
Has an undcover-aide: Blanderdash
"... since this was the office of General Kashenblade himself, the Commander in Chief. I walked in, and the officer who was on duty at the time led me to the Chief without asking any questions.
A powerful, bald old man, Kashenblade stirred his coffee. His head was perched upon the collar of his uniform; the bristling, many-folded jowls covered the galactic insignia and stripes like a bib. The desk was cluttered with phones and surrounded by computer consoles, speakers, buttons, and in the center was a row of labeled glass jars -- specimens, apparently, though I couldn't see a thing in them apart from the alcohol. Kashenblade, the veins bulging on his shiny pate, was busy pushing buttons to silence the phones as soon as they began to ring. When several rang together, he rammed his fist into the whole bank of buttons. Then he noticed me. In the silence that followed there was only the grim tapping of his teaspoon. ... "