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

[Jeff Wilson]

> 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?