Satyr — Robert DeMaria

Our hero says, "I am a bachelor and may remain one as long as my mother is alive. It is impending marriage, in fact, that has brought the entire situation to a head. My mother objects vigorously, and when my mother objects vigorously to anything, it is like a nameless and invisible plague visited upon the land. You know it is killing you, but you can't describe exactly how it is being done."