S-a-r-t-o-c-a-n-o-i-d

Had he heard the word before?
Had he read it somewhere?
Perhaps hiding beneath other juicier, more plausible words.

Familiar coal black letters gashed through jaundiced legal pad.

"Sartocanoid."

Had he lived with this word in his heart or in his pocket?
Had it branded him in a blink of the eye like a hot wet trail of congealed egg-yolk?