Janus He appears selfless and compassionate but, in truth, is power-hungry, amoral, and without regard for the well-being of others. In the 1987 thriller novel "The Janus Man" by British novelist Raymond Harold Sawkins, Janus is used as a metaphor for a Soviet agent infiltrated into British Secret Intelligence Service - "The Janus Man who faces both East and West". Janus In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (; ("Iānus"), ) is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the
Doorways in the Sand of "Doorways" Fred says, “I glanced at my watch. It indicated that I was late for my appointment.” Zelazny relates Fred to the White Rabbit, who on page one of "Alice" says, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late.” He then takes out his pocket watch and looks at it. Many other "Doorways" characters are parallel to Alice characters: Zelazny refers to well-known Carrollian quotations throughout the novel: Other references to "Alice" include: "Doorways" is mostly narrated in the first person by its protagonist, Fred Cassidy. However, in the last chapter Speicus, the sentient sociological computer, takes up