For YEARS I have been trying to remember the name of a series of stories I read in my youth about a guy with a genius subconscious that only ever gets a chance tom come through when he's drunk, and when sober has to spend the rest of the story trying to work out what the hell he's built! (For some reason I was sure that it was a Stanislaw Lem, or another Russian author I'd read in translation)
And you just casually go a drop the name I've been hunting for all these years! BRILLIANT! Many thanks... Time to go order a copy of "The Proud Robot"