The James Bond Dossier 'almost parodic scholarly dedication', Amis provides a ten-category ('Places', 'Girl', 'Villain's Project', etc.) reference guide (pp. 156–159) to the Bond novels and short stories. Typical of Amis's approach is where he suggests several implausibilities in Bond's capture by the eponymous villain in "Dr No" (1958). However, that 'Bond is temporarily helpless in his creator's grip', does not matter, because 'three of Mr Fleming's favourite situations are about to come up one after the other. Bond is to be wined and dined, lectured on the aesthetics of power, and finally tortured by his chief enemy'. Earlier, Amis had discussed the matter
Gaius Julius Iulus Gaius Julius Iulus Gaius Julius Iulus was a name used by Roman men of the Iulus branch of the "gens Julia", which was older than the more famous Caesar branch to which Julius Caesar belonged. Five were consuls and one was dictator. Gaius Julius L. f. Iulus, consul in 489 BC with Publius Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus. During their year of office the Volscians under Coriolanus commenced war against Rome. Livy omits the consuls of this year altogether. Gaius Julius C. f. L. n. Iulus, the son of Gaius, who had been consul in 489 BC, was himself consul in 482