O Anus Mirabilis!” The literary critic Leslie Fiedler reads much into this and sees the whole novel as “a fractured and dissolving parable of the very process by which the emancipated Jew enters into the world of Western Culture.”  Inside the Trojan Horse Balso encounters an array of odd characters who, he realizes, are all “writers in search of an audience”.
The phrase "O Anus Mirabilis!" and its significance in relation to the novel's themes of cultural transition and artistic pursuit are central to understanding the work. The presence of writers searching for recognition within the Trojan Horse further emphasizes these themes.