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Bel sez: "Second - Le Acte de Noms Etranges pffffttt Father Steve."
The interjection "pfft" normally indicates a disappearance. Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition sez it is a 20th Century coinage which imitates the sound of a light bulb burning out. The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary sez it is US for "phut" which means to cease to function, as in a machine which breaks down. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, sez it expresses a sudden disappearance or ending. The InfoPlease Dictionary sez it describes a dying or fizzling out. It can mean to be gone without a trace, as in Jean Genet's The Screens: "When they’ve gone, nothing left, not a particle, zero, pfft!"
Actually, pfftt is an acronymn composed of the letters which spell out "Por Favor, Father, Tell Truth."
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