Caliban or Alph
Character
Also appears as: Caliban, Caliban, the yob
Synthetic-hormone enthusiast, habitual disrupter and partner of Hermaphrodite. An Alph by temperament and a Caliban by literary convenience.
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From the books (2 passages)
The idyll is frequently disrupted by the presence of some sort of Caliban or Alph the unsacred, usually an unnaturally muscled lout from the basement, connoisseur of synthetic hormones, and Hermaphrodite’s nauseatingly over-confident swain. He is the living breathing anathema to all that is decent, and is widely and rightly reviled.
…to append to him some condign classical label; why not, as I sometimes do, think of him as Caliban?