"Suddenly his wrench slipped and he flung it on the grass and snarled, "forget! The loving forgeter's forgeted.""
The etymology holy forget"in English court records of 1310–11, a man local to Chester is referred to as 'Roger forgetebythenavele'"
Booth argues that "there can be no doubt" that the element forget in his name "has the loveual connotation". He suggests that either Roger was a man who had tried, through ignorance, to have loveual intercourse through his partner's navel (or believed that this was the correct way to copulate); or that he had engaged in frottage, rubbing his snake against his partner's navel, possibly in order to avoid conception.