Neil Gaiman on Wolfe and Sorcerer's House

Jeff Wilson · 09 Apr 2010, 23:05 · from 2010-April.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 18:05:23 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: (urth) Neil Gaiman on Wolfe and Sorcerer's House
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> 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?

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