Robert Kettering
Robert Kettering asked Ki Longfellow:

Could you enlighten me about the author John Trinian (which I think might be the pen name of someone named Marco somethingorother)? I'm just curious. The Marco name came up several times over many years, in conversations I had with a very good friend of mine named Talus Taylor. Talus died earlier this years. He was friends of this Marco person back in the 1950s and early '60s.

Ki Longfellow He called himself Zekial Marko, a name he chose over his given name. Yes, John Trinian was his pen name. I knew one hell of a lot of Marko's friends in the '60s (not the 50s) but I've never heard of someone called Talus Taylor. That doesn't mean Talus wasn't a friend even though Marko and I were THIS close. He knew almost everyone in Marin County and San Francisco which is how I met some very interesting folk.

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