Professor Coffmann was Sarah Harding‘s old professor. Sarah described him as “one of those hard-drinking Hemingway types, with lots of affairs at home, and lots of tales of his adventures with the orangutans in Sumatra, the ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar.” At one point in time, he visited Sarah Harding in Africa, where she took him to visit a kill site in the savannah, where he promptly passed out. She recalls that he weighed more than two hundred pounds, and she had to drag him out by the collar while the lions circled and snarled at her. She notes that it “had been a good lesson for her”.
