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 contingent on the results of the analysis, it would be an exercise in redundancy to detail the various hypotheses which may have to be discarded."<br> "In other words, you are not going to tell me?"<br> "That pretty well sums it up." In "Doorways" as in "The Courts of Chaos" the evocations of and homage to Lewis Carroll's works provide many of the gags and mad humor. Lewis Carroll is mentioned by name in the novel. Here are some of the many allusions to "Alice" in "Doorways": "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" and "Doorways" begin on warm May afternoons. On page one