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Linebarger was long rumored to have been the original for " Kirk Allen ," the fantasy-haunted subject of " The Jet-Propelled Couch ," a chapter in psychologist Robert M. Lindner's best-selling 1954 collection, The Fifty-Minute Hour.
According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms, this speculation first reached print in Brian Aldiss's 1973 history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree ; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have gotten the information from Leon Stover.
More recently, both Elms and librarian Lee Weinstein have gathered circumstantial evidence to support the case for Linebarger's being " Allen ," but both concede there is no direct proof that Linebarger was ever a patient of Lindner's or that he suffered from a disorder similar to that of " Kirk Allen.

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