M*A*S*H, Cpl. Klinger sets a pole sitting record. In Anatole France's Thaïs, Paphnuce, on his path to damnation, becomes a stylite but unwittingly falls to temptation...

the inspiration for the 1894 opera of the same name by Jules Massenet. Paphnuce, an ascetic hermit of the southern Egyptian desert, along the Nile, in...

world", yet since then his approach became dated, and his reputation fell. Paphnuce is an ascetic hermit of the Egyptian desert, yet he appears to be a fanatic...