Cultural References
Alfred Tennyson's poem St. Simeon Stylites (1842) dramatizes the story of Saint Simeon.
Luis Buñuel's film Simón del desierto (1965) is loosely based on the story of Saint Simeon.
The Mark Twain novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court features a man who lives on a pillar in the valley of the hermits and repeatedly bends over at the waist; the main character hitches him to a sewing machine and uses the man to make linen shirts.
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