Mark the Wans

• King Mark: Tristan's uncle in the story of Tristan and Isolde → HCE

• mark the wains: (Anglo-Irish) look at the children (wains = "wee ones")

• Mark Twain: pseudonym of Samuel Clemens, author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn → HCE

• mark the once

• Mark the Ones → i.e. King Mark I

• wan: unnaturally pale complexion, from distress; a wan expression → wann: (Old English) dark, gloomy, black