A bar named ‘Wolfy’s’ – evoking the wild, noble, characterful spirit of the wolf, one of nature’s most powerful creatures
Wolfy’s Bar holds two hundred and ninety-eight reviews and a 4.3 – a solid score on a good sample – and it carries a characterful and evocative name from the wild: the wolf, that powerful, noble, characterful creature, one of the most striking and evocative animals in all of nature and myth.
The noble wolf
The wolf is one of the most powerful, noble and evocative of all wild creatures. Once roaming across much of the northern world (including, long ago, the forests of Britain), the wolf is a genuinely magnificent animal – powerful, intelligent, social, and strikingly beautiful, the great wild ancestor of the domestic dog. There is a genuine nobility and power to the wolf – the strong, intelligent, watchful creature of the wild, the great hunter of the forests and mountains. It has captured the human imagination like few other animals – admired and feared, celebrated and mythologised, a creature of genuine power and character. To name a bar “Wolfy’s” is to summon this powerful, noble, characterful spirit – the wild strength and character of the wolf. (The friendly, affectionate diminutive “Wolfy” softens it warmly – the noble wolf, but a warm and welcoming one.)
The spirit of the pack
One of the most appealing things about the wolf is its social nature – for wolves live and hunt in packs, with strong bonds of loyalty, cooperation and family. The wolf pack is a genuine society – a close-knit, loyal, cooperative family group, working together, caring for one another, bound by strong social bonds. This social, loyal, cooperative spirit is one of the most admirable things about the wolf – the loyalty to the pack, the working-together, the strong bonds of the wolf family. And it makes the wolf a genuinely fitting emblem for a bar – for the bar, too, is a place of gathering, fellowship, loyalty and companionship, where the “pack” comes together in warmth and good company. “Wolfy’s” evokes this warm, sociable, pack spirit – the gathering of the pack, the loyalty and fellowship, the coming-together in warmth and good company.
The creature of myth and imagination
The wolf has a rich place, too, in human myth, legend and imagination – one of the most powerful and evocative of all creatures in story and symbol. From the she-wolf who suckled Romulus and Remus (the founders of Rome), to the wolves of Norse myth, to the countless wolves of fairy tale and legend, the wolf has always fired the human imagination – a creature of power, mystery, wildness and character. It carries a genuine mythic and imaginative resonance – the wild, powerful, mysterious wolf of legend and story. A bar named “Wolfy’s” taps into this rich imaginative heritage – the powerful, evocative, mythic creature, full of character and wild appeal. It is a name of genuine strength, character and imaginative resonance.
There is genuine character and appeal in the name – the powerful, noble wolf, the loyal and sociable spirit of the pack, the rich mythic and imaginative resonance of the creature, warmly softened by the friendly “Wolfy.” It is a characterful, evocative, appealing name, flying the wild and noble spirit of the wolf. Its solid score across a good sample marks it as a genuinely good and well-liked bar, worthily bearing its characterful name. The Prat’s nature desk salutes the noble wolf, gathers with the pack, and raises a characterful glass.
The bar
A solid, well-regarded bar doing a good 4.3 across a good sample, characterfully named “Wolfy’s” – evoking the wild, noble, sociable spirit of the wolf, one of nature’s most powerful and evocative creatures.
Verdict
Solid, well-regarded, and characterful – Wolfy’s Bar, flying the wild and noble spirit of the wolf, softened warmly by the friendly name.
Have a drink at Wolfy’s Bar, gather with the pack, and enjoy the characterful name – the wolf, that powerful, noble, sociable creature of the wild and of myth, one of nature’s most evocative animals.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: [email protected]
