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Demetrius Toteras Author

Demetrius Toteras or D. K. Toteras is a nom-de-plume. The author, a Greek American, was born in San Francisco in1935 and died in 2009. He was an underage soldier in the US army and saw active service in the early part of the Korean War. It is known that he spent some time in jail, and his first publication, Sunday They'll Make Me A Saint (1972), was a drama set in a prison and first performed by inmates of San Quentin. He left a body of psychological/philosophical reflections which remain unpublished, except for The Rape Of The Sleeping Woman And The Practice of Hypnagogic Sex (1995). He was extensively involved in music and in experimental theatre.