Steaminess Rating, Allusions - Analysis, I Robot | I, Robot by Isaac Asimov- Summary, Themes & Characters - Novels PDF Download

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There is one instance in this book where a woman likes a man and puts on lipstick to seem more attractive to him; and that's about as steamy as the whole things gets. There is no—we cannot stress this enough—no sex between either humans or robots in this book.

Allusions

Literary and Philosophical References

• Descartes (Reason.56), French philosopher, most famous today for his phrase "I think, therefore I am."
• "Lead on, Macduff" (Runaround.70) is a reference to Shakespeare's play Macbeth, though it is, in fact, a common misquotation.
• "There grew a little flower 'neath a great oak tree," (Runaround.119) is a line from Ruddigore, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. Gilbert and Sullivan get mentioned again (120, 214, and Catch that Rabbit.16) but the important thing to note is that they wrote a lot of funny operettas in their day. And Speedy seems to know them all.
• "Lover's professions when uttered in Hessians" (Runaround.189) is a line from Patience, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
• "When you're lying awake with a dismal headache and repose is tabooed—" (Runaround.221) is a line from Iolanthe, another Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
• A parsec (Escape.93) is a unit of distance—a very far distance, in fact