Most DM titles are based on other titles, allude to common Cornish phrases or are a mere play on words. It might be interesting for people to know the hidden meanings behind some of them. For instance :: ‘Going Bodmin’. The double entendre being Martin, who had developed a blood phobia, was being sidelined (from London, where he was a highly respected surgeon) to the small Cornish community of Portwenn (not far from the real town of Bodmin). Bodmin, in real life, was the location of that area’s asylum for the mentally disturbed, and the phrase is well known in the Cornish culture. So the double meaning is quite apt :: Martin was going ‘there’ both physically as well as mentally.
