>It certainly rings alarm bells

Mebbe that was it's purpose. I imagine that a character as apparently difficult to classify as Mr Cope, might well go in for a bit of attempted wrongfooting when talking to reporters.

I reckon most of the people who post here are at least vaguely aware that 'The Bloke Who Wrote The Book The Website's Named After' is a bit of a strange beastie, and would assume he's just being a barmy rockstar type out to get a reaction. Similar opinons from randomly anonymous posters would probably be mercilessly scourged, beacuse there's no a priori frame of reference to let readers put ambiguity into context, be it irony, bigotry, ignorance or just plain barmyness. I'm probably stating the obvious in a needlessly waffley manner, if so, apologies.

Or, it could be that the fiendish web design of Mr McGrail has subliminally brainwashed us all into unconditionally accepting the pronouncements of The Author Of The Book, prior to the final step in Cope's grand plan to immanentise the eschaton by sending arcane patterns of megalithic information whizzing through modems of the English speaking world.