(urth) Neil Gaiman on Wolfe and Sorcerer's House

[Mo Holkar / UKG]

At 00:05 10/04/2010, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> > At 22:52 09/04/2010, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> > "Once upon a time, a not-so-young man read a book called THE FIFTH
> > HEAD OF CERBERUS ... Then along came a book called STROKES by John
> > Clute, where he learned FIFTH HEAD had a somewhat more sophisticated
> > structure and that it was even possible to deduce Number Five's real
> > name, followed still later by Michael Andre-Driussi's LEXICON URTHUS..."
> > http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=CaveCanem.Intro
> >
> > Suggests to me that he deduced the name after reading Strokes (pub
> > 1988), but before reading LU (pub 1994
>
>What about Clute, then?


I haven't read Strokes (or anything else of Clute's on the subject), 
so I can't comment about that. Anyone else?

Mo


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