"He never let me forget the precarious circumstances of our first meeting. I had misheard the introduction as “Dr Jan and his manservant” and had presumed that the Swede was the gentleman of letters and the oriental his man. His sneer could be measured on the metric scale.
How they arrived on Venus' shores I did not know but the pair had done their level best to thwart my ambitions ever since.
If the Swede did indeed have a name, perhaps it was only one that the doctor whispered to him in the dead of night."
From Professor Mancheeks' Alamanac of the Amazing
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