The loudmouthed, bullheaded, libertarian wise-man of Robert Heinlein's most famous novel Stranger in a Strange Land. He serves as a mentor for the main character and others. Heinlein poured his own philosophies into Jubal, making it seem as if the dean himself thunders into the story. He possesses many contradictory traits, which doesn't seem to bother him at all as there's a time and place for everything. He spews wisdom out like a garden hose gone mad. He refers to the TV as a goddamn noisy box. Though he leans toward pacifism, he has no qualms about fighting for his freedom. And like Heinlein himself, he's horrified to find that a religion has been founded partly based on some of his utterances. (A group of people founded a religion based on this very book. Life imitates art?)

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