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 to knowledge, culture and satisfying experiences. According to Samuel R. Delany, Zelazny believed that “Given all eternity to live, each experience becomes a jewel in the jewel-clutter of life; each moment becomes infinitely fascinating because there is so much more to relate it to." In "Doorways" Fred achieves near immortality as a host for Speicus. In the hospital after being shot all of Fred’s injuries heal speedily. Later Speicus tells Fred that he is able to repair his body indefinitely. For Zelazny one of the attractions of immortality was that an immortal could continue to learn forever. And Zelazny had