We’re going to have a variety of different room types you can encounter and one such idea is a sort of library where the curator can portmanteau two words from your inventory together (for a fee).
Sticking with the historical real people theme I initially thought this person might be famous lexicograther Samuel Johnson but it took no hesitation whatsoever to carelessly drop an ‘L’ as a middle initial and come up with something referencing Pulp Fiction at the same time!
The brain/glasses character was an earlier candidate!