it leads one inescapably to the happy conviction that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greatest." In The Dalkey Archive, de Selby develops a substance ("D.M.P.") capable of extracting all oxygen from an airtight enclosure, thus disrupting the sequentiality of time, incidentally making it possible to produce fine mature whiskey in a week. De Selby vows to use the substance to destroy the world in the name of God. "de Selby" and his commentators are frequently cited in the footnotes of Robert Anton Wilson's novel The Widow's Son. Wilson later included Professor de Selby as the main character in his short story "The Horror on Howth Hill" where de Selby has a conversation with J. R. "Bob" Dobbs. References External links De Selby Canned Darkness... About De Selby (Polish language)... Characters in fantasy literature Characters in Irish novels Characters in novels of the 20th century Literary characters introduced in 1964 Fictional mad scientists Fictional parapsychologists Fictional physicists Fictional writers