Who is Mr. Gabidar? The name mimics those of Monsieur Teste (Valéry), Pan Cogito (Herbert), and il signor Palomar (Calvino). Except in the sense that the name of Mr. Gabidar was derived simply from an idea developed called (perhaps erroneously) phonetic shift. An appropriation of a linguistics concept where consonants are paired as phonemes: b/p, d/t, f/v, g/k, l/r, m/n, s/z and the letters c, h, j, q, w, x may or may not find matches depending on the sounds they make.
So to unlock the meaning behind the name of Mr. Gabidar all one needs to do is shift the phonemes. G becomes K, b becomes p, d becomes t, and r becomes l, which spells a famous book by Karl Marx, Das Kapital. If I decide to use Taz as the first name of Mr. Gabidar, the idea is a complete enigma.
Phonetic shift is one concept I developed to help hide the names of people I know in real life to disguise their name if not their identity in order to avoid libel.
In the course of studying foreign languages and introductory linguistics, I came to learn language games useful in the art of writing poetry. Slant rhymes often derive from phonetic shift.
Though Marx and communism are not concepts that Mr. Gabidar embodies unless only through the critique of capitalist culture in Western societies.
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