I don't remember if I pointed out this before: the
title of the opus 'Sex and Lex' unearthed by Van (1.21) seems to hint at Lex
sexualis in Evgeniy Zamyatin's My ("We", 1921). This Lex
(law) states: "Each number has a right to any other number, as a sexual
commodity". Zamayatin's novel is set in the 32nd century. The characters have
numbers instead of names (males have odd numbers prefixed by consonants, females
have even numbers prefixed by vowels).
George Orwell was greatly influenced by
Zamyatin. The Big Brother in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) is the
equivalent of the Benefactor in "We". In Ada, Van is Ada's and
Lucette's big brother... But I wrote of it elsewhere.
I notice that one of the characters in Zamyatin's
story Detskaya ("The Nursery", 1920) is captain
Krug.
F in "elephant" and "phallic" in my previous
posts was a Phreudian slip.
Alexey Sklyarenko