to the machine will kill them. The fugitive thinks that if Morel is neither in love with Faustine nor Dora, then he is in love with her. Old Lady: She is probably related to Dora, because they are always together. She is drunk the night of the speech, but the fugitive still considers she could be Morel's love interest in case he is not in love with any of the other women. Haynes: He is asleep at the time Morel is about to give his speech. Dora says he is in Faustine's bedroom and that no one will get him out of there because he is heavy. It is unknown why he is there, but the fugitive is not jealous of him. Morel gives the speech anyway. Stoever: He is the one who guesses they are all going to die. The other members of the group prevent him from following Morel when he leaves the aquarium. He calms down and the group's fanaticism towards Morel prevails over his own survival instinct. Allusions/references Throughout the novel the fugitive cites the views of Thomas Robert Malthus on population control as the only way to prevent chaos if humanity uses Morel's invention to achieve immortality. He also wants to write a book entitled Praise to Malthus. Before he finds out the truth about the island, the fugitive cites Cicero's book De Natura Deorum as an explanation of the appearance of two suns in the sky. The tourists like to dance to the song "Tea for Two" from the Broadway musical No, No, Nanette. This foreshadows the fugitive's love for Faustine. While trapped in the machine's room the fugitive promises himself he will not die like the Japanese folk hero Tsutomu Sakuma, one of the victims of Japan's first submarine accident. About 19 minutes into Eliseo (Ernesto) Subiela's film Man Facing Southeast, the psychiatrist Dr. Denis reads aloud from La invención de Morel as he struggles to identify his patient. In Georges Perec's 1969 experimental novel A Void, insomniac Anton Vowl hallucinates an abridged and misremembered version of the plot of La invención de Morel. In the text the book is given the name La Croix du Sud (The Southern Cross) by Isidro Parodi/Honorio Bustos Domaicq - respectively the protagonist and pseudonymous author of Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi, a book written by Casares in collaboration with Borges. Literary significance and criticism Jorge