Doctor de Carabas

In this lovely introduction essay to a Doctor Who novella, Eye of the Tyger, Neil Gaiman admits that he wrote the Marquis de Carabas (from Neverwhere) as if he were writing his own version of the Doctor.

I can't put my finger on exactly why this pleases me so very much, but it does. I'd never made the connection before, but yes: The Marquis is SO the Doctor.