In the Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy written after Illuminatus!, it is stated that "Hagbard Celine" is a pseudonym and that his legal name is Howard Crane.
Some have even theorized that Hagbard Celine is Captain Nemo,[1] though Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas is set in the second half of the nineteenth century.
He is also comparable to a degree to Ragnar Danneskjold, a libertarian pirate in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged, which is spoofed in the chronicles as "Telemachus Sneezed".
Celine tends to give misinformation about himself and his intentions and that he faked the death of an actress, implied to be Marilyn Monroe,[2] in order to train her into becoming an embodiment of the goddess Eris.
In a section printed in the introductions of volumes I and II of the trilogy, though not reprinted in the single-volume compilation, the narrator mentions that he has a raft of Irish relatives in Ohio named McGee and Marlowe.
A former naturalized United States citizen, Hagbard supposedly relinquished his citizenship after representing a Mohawk reservation in court against the Bureau of Indian Affairs.