you will understand the kind of person who makes it to membership if i tell you that i myself have seen , walking or sitting or eating or talking , in its many rooms , such notables as daraxius lo ( who sold the kzem a frog-bat on a holy day ) , prottle ( who sold the palace of the king of vandaria to the king of vandaria ) , and the self-styled lord niff ( who , i have heard it whispered , was the original inventor of the fox twist , the cheat that broke the bank at the casino grande ) .