Finally, I think it may perhaps be useful to the reader if I include an (incomplete) list of the works cited in Rex, either explicitly (in boldface) or implicitly:
First Commentary: Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past; William Shakespeare, Macbeth; Herodotus, The Histories. Second Commentary: Jorge Luis Borges, “The Approach to Almotasin,” “The Mirror of Ink,” “The Secret Miracle”; Fyodor Dostoyevski, The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment. Third Commentary: Molière, The Imaginary Invalid; Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa; Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way and Within a Budding Grove; Stockton, Frank R., “The Lady or the Tiger.” Fourth Commentary: H. G. Wells, The Time Machine; Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland; Ivan Efremov, Andromeda Nebula; Chutan Tse, The Thief of the Peaches of Longevity; Marcel Proust, Swann in Love; Michael Psellus, Chronographia. Fifth Commentary: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451; Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra; Alexander Pushkin, Ruslan and Ludmilla; Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude; Robert I. Friedman, Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America; Victor Hugo, Les Miserables; George Lucas, Star Wars; Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough. Sixth Commentary: Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV; Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s; H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds; Homer, the Iliad; Charles Baudelaire, Mon coeur mis à nu; Franz Kafka, Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors; Appian, Roman History; Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita; Avicenna, The Canon of Medicine; Racine, Mithridates. Seventh Commentary: Anonymous, The Song of the Nibelungs; Erasmus, The Education of the Christian Prince; Anonymous, the Epic of Gilgamesh. Eighth Commentary: 1 Kings 9:26–28, 10:11, 22; 2 Chronicles 8:17–18, 9:10; Ernst Kantorowicz, The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology; Aristophanes, The Clouds; Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble; Hammurabi, Codex Hammurabi. Ninth Commentary: Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita; John Milton, Aeropagitica; Fyodor Dostoyevski, The Brothers Karamazov; Heinrich Heine, The Baths of Lucca; Thomas Mann, Time Magic Mountain; Isaac Asimov, “I’m in Marsport without Hilda.” Tenth Commentary: Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; Prosper Mérimée, Demetrius the Impostor: an Episode in Russian History; Anton Chekhov, “The Death of a Goverment Clerk”; Bishop Berkeley, Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge; Jules Vernes, The Vanished Diamond; William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet; Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island. Eleventh Commentary: Thomas De Quincey, “The Sphinx’s Riddle”; Fyodor Dostoyevski, The Brothers Karamazov; Saint Augustine, Contra mendacium; Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus), Three Treatises; Alfred Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory; Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, Amadis de Gaula; Henry James, Daisy Miller; Confucius, The Analects, John Amos Comenius, Didactica Magna; Jules Verne, Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen; Bishop Liutprand of Cremona, Relatio de legatione Constantinopolitana ad Nicephoruni Phocam; Saint John the Divine, Revelations 22:18–19; Jorge Luis Borges, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”; William Morris, The Water of the Wondrous Isles; Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo; Gabriel Garcia Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude; Farid al-Din al-’Attar, The Conference of the Birds; Homer, the Iliad. Twelfth Commentary: Aeschylus, The Persians; Ortega y Gasset, “Time, Distance and Form in the Work of Marcel Proust”; Anonymous, the epic of Gilgamesh; Julio Cortázar, “Instructions on How to Climb a Staircase”; James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans; Vladimir Ilych Lenin, Materialism and empirocriticism; the Brothers Grimm, Thumbelina; Antonio Vivaldi, Juditha Triumphans, George D. Painter, Marcel Proust, a Biography; Saint Augustine, The Confessions; Thomas Mann, Death in Venice; John Cheever, Stories; Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim; Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels; Saint John the Divine, Revelations 22:18–19; Marco Polo, Il Millone.