The Complete Roderick

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p. 352 All of the italicized lines in Chapter Two are taken from other books: Eric Corder, Slave; Charles Dickens, Life of Our Lord; G.A. Henty, The Dash for Khartoum; Albert Camus, The Stranger, Mickey Spillane, I, Fury; Harry Mathews, The Conversions; James Hadley Chase, I’ll Get You for This; Jorge Luis Borges, The Night of the Gifts; Nathaniel West, Cool Million; Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key; Joyce Cary, The Horse’s Mouth; Paul Chadburn, ‘Murder on the High Seas’ in Fifty Most Amazing Crimes; George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister, F. Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment; Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely; Robin Moore, The Green Berets; A. Durnas, The Three Musketeers; Carole Keene, The Message in the Hollow Oak; E.R. Burroughs, The Warlord of Mars; Dorothy Sayers, Whose Body?: Graham Greene, Brighton Rock; Joseph Conrad, Nostromo; The Book of Judges; Warren Miller, The Cool World; A. Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd; John le Carré, A Murder of Quality; E.A. Poe, Masque of The Red Death; James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice; A. Conan Doyle, ‘The Red-Headed League’; Zane Grey, Nevada; E.C. Bentley, Trent’s Last Case; The Gordons, The FBI Story; F.P. Wenseley, ‘Under Fire at Sidney Street’ in Fifty Famous Hairbreadth Escapes; Ken Jones, The FBI in Action; D.W. Stevens, The James Boys in Minnesota; Raymond Chandler, Smart Aleck Kill; Thomas Pynchon, V.

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p. 366 Sue Ellen’s third husband was Vern. Roderick deduced this by assuming that two of the six people in question are brother and sister (hence the six can only be married in eight different ways). The marriages took place in this order: 1. Clarence m. Sue Ellen; Vern m. Sue Jane. 2. Clarence m. Sue Jane; Vern m. Mary Sue. 3. Ronnie m. Mary Sue. 4. Clarence m. Mary Sue; Ronnie m. Sue Ellen. 5. Vern m. Sue Ellen.

The siblings, Ronnie and Sue Jane, did not marry.

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p. 454 Not all of these are imaginary books. Of the fifteen named or mentioned here, the imaginary ones are Nos. 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 only.

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p. 552 A. L. Samuel, ‘Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation — A Refutation’, Science 132 (Sept 16, 1960), pp. 741–2. Cited in Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter.

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p. 566 Lewis Carroll, ‘What the Tortoise Said to Achilles’, Mind (1895), pp. 278–80.

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p. 585 See A. Rapoport and A. M. Chammah, Prisoner’s Dilemma (Ann Arbor: Univ. Michigan Press, 1965).