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These characters are walk-ons.  You don't want them in drama because of its compressed form, but there is room for them in a novel.  Naming a character isn't the same as bringing the character in.  If the character has as much as action as a table, the character isn't present at all; the character is a piece of the setting.
Look at all the 'underused' characters in Girl Genius.  Two characters who will probably never be seen again: Crispin and the cat-maid.

A kimg like Milwr is happy ruling a land that NEEDS his peculiar, amoral skills, and will leave the kingdom in the hands of the only ones who can rule it--the amoral among his heirs.

Y'know, the threads here are so much better than that punctuation thread in the Premium group ... .... ..

9 Yards.

See Scott Kim's =Inversions= (book and website).

Also the world's longest coastline.

No rounding error.  You're correct to within 1/2 of the stated unit--at the latitudes in question!

And a tea cozy, and ... just ... one ... spoon.

Oh, by the way, the golden-haired girl =is= the Lady Heterodyne.  The fiction is about her.

Bottom line: if someone had good evidence that drinking milkshakes tripled you chances of being hit by lightning, would you let that figure into your decision to have a milkshake?

Wordplay may be within the reach of one person, but beyond the reach of another.  Horses for courses and licenses for audiences.
Joyce is a troublesome example, not because of his vocabulacrobatics, but because of his politics and the JackHenryAbbot excuses that the literary community made for him.  Before I knew of that, I had marked my copy of The Portable James Joyce (Humanities 101) as "The Unpotable James Joyce."  But if that's your mead, drink freely.

Currently chapter 66.  Kirsey, Pengrit, Strumpet, with Harriat, Vamp, Parkol, Forsa, and Midlich.

Joyce was playing a game with the reader in the mechanics of language.  Most of us do not have that luxury; any games we play must stand on rock-solid mechanics.