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Snout Solaris 1968
Snout Emmerich

Snout is an inhabitant of Solaris Station.

He is visited by an apparition that is not shown in the movies, or described in more detail in the books.

However, the likes to refer to it as worse than the seemingly 'benign' apparations his colleagues Chris Kelvin and Sartorius experience.

Snout in Solaris (1972)