Tik-Tok/K...O

Summary

In the recent past: Tik-Tok gains further influence and resources by mingling with high society and the press, and also by becoming a corporation. His robot gang joins forces with the Jord Family to commit extravagant crimes; later, working alone, Tik-Tok experiments with committing a long series of secret crimes against one victim.

In the more distant past: Tik-Tok has joined up with the hijackers, but the ship seems to be doomed, so they settle down to tell stories and Tik-Tok learns what became of the Culpeppers. At the last minute, the travelers are saved when they realize the ship never left Earth in the first place.

K

("Knocking...")

Lost Bread

Unlike some of the other foodstuffs in the list, this one is real: an old name (still used in New Orleans) for French toast.

L

("The lip-smacking...")

Doesn't a soldier have binoculars?

The general's monologue is a parody of Shylock's speech in The Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene i.

Ritzbig Diamond

Refers to "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

M

("Muttered...")

N

("Nixon Park...")

O

("Operation Job")

encouraging des autres

Probably a reference to the advice in Candide to "kill an admiral from time to time" pour encourager les autres (to encourage the others).