is an eighty-something retired academic Orientalist of purported French descent. Family background and academic background unknown. Made his way around Europe with a slight American accent, for which he was mocked publicly by Alexandre Kojève, and conducted dialogues with many well-known intellectuals, all of whom denied permission for publication. Crossed paths with Heidegger on two occasions. Moved through the Parisian intellectual world of the 1960s as an outsider and sharp observer with a gift for portraying personalities and scenes. Kept notebooks of LSD sessions lost during the destruction of the Lebanese Public Library in 1975, and dropped out for a while before resuming scholarly work at the National Library and Archive of Iran. He wrote articles under various pseudonyms on topics relating to archaic myths influenced by George Dumézil. He now lives on the Upper East Side by himself on a small inheritance and recently began a strict regimen of unresearched psychoactive drugs to stave off the onset of dementia.