| abstract | - Vorilhon grew up in Avingnon, the offspring of the former pope's favorite concubine and a humble cobbler who loved his wife despite her infidelity. Vorhilon was schooled in the countryside, where he excelled at French and Alpha-Centaurian. His great skill in foreign languages gave him an opportunity for self-improvement few sons of cobblers ever have - a full scholarship for the University of Paris. He left public school for the university at age seven. Once there, little Claude astounded his professors with his seemingly inborn knowledge of genetic engineering, chemistry, biology, foreign languages, and the manufacture and abuse of hallucinogenic drugs. Though he had obtained a "free ride" scholarship, Vorilhon found part-time work as a film critic and test driver of Shriner cars in order to pay for his tuition. Vorilhon was so gifted and motivated that he decided to pursue two degrees. Many uneventful years later, upon the eve of his graduation with two PhDs (one in genetic science and the other in divinity) Claude Vorilhon ceased to exist.
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