Editing Cyril M. Kornbluth (section)

==Personality and habits==
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Frederik Pohl, in his autobiography ''The Way the Future Was'', [[Damon Knight]], in his memoir ''The Futurians'', and [[Isaac Asimov]], in his memoirs ''[[In Memory Yet Green]]'' and ''I. Asimov: A Memoir'', all give descriptions of Kornbluth as a man of odd personal habits and eccentricities.

Kornbluth, for example, decided to educate himself by reading his way through an entire encyclopedia from A to Z; in the course of this effort, he acquired a great deal of esoteric knowledge that found its way into his stories, in alphabetical order by subject. When Kornbluth wrote a story that mentioned the ''[[ballista]]'', an Ancient Roman weapon, Pohl knew that Kornbluth had finished the 'A's and had started on the 'B's.

According to Pohl, Kornbluth never brushed his teeth, and they were literally green.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}} Deeply embarrassed by this, Kornbluth developed the habit of holding his hand in front of his mouth when speaking.