Several episodes show a religious fanatic who has chosen to deal with the Great Departure by living on top of a pillar. This is a real phenomenon in the history of Christianity; the first known such person was St. Simeon the Stylite, a Syrian Christian ascetic who lived for thirty-seven years on a small platform atop a pillar near Aleppo, before dying in 459 A.D. ("stylite" referring to the Greek for "pillar"). Simeon had a slew of Byzantine-era acolytes and imitators.
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