Who is not to be confused with St. John the Persian, a writer of poems, or with that Burroughs illustrator, the late J. Alien, who is surely St. John of Barsoom.
The title of saint has sometimes been humorously bestowed, notably on Simon Templar. I’ll close this piece with an anecdote which probably no one but Minnesotans and the omniscient Avram Davidson will appreciate. Years ago, the state university there had a physics professor named Anthony Zeleny, a very moral man who gave little lectures on the evils of smoking and drinking, in between differential equations. Now the tech students at Minnesota have an annual
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