JC not of my universe

While I recognize that I really should not even mention it, since clearly I am in a different universe than John Crowley and possibly everybody else, yet still, I keep coming back to this one tiny bit in the baffling interview of John Crowley:

Now, "prolific" is not a word I would ever associate with John Crowley. I don't mean that in a mean-spirited way at all. Because it seems so wildly at variance with my sense of things, at first snort I took it to be ironic (and the word "prolific" should therefore be in italics); but then I saw that it might be "cloaked irony," that is, Crowley is channeling Reynard the Fox (what, again?!) and telling outrageous tales with a straight face (to see how far he can go, or just to mess with people's minds, who can say?). But then I realized that he is most likely telling the simple truth. =mantis=