The film, ready for release in 1963 but delayed until 1964 (it was screened for critics, but the Kennedy assassination put it on the back-burner until the public mood had changed), came out in the same year as Thomas Pynchon's "V." - a novel which features characters with names like Benny Profane, Rachel Owlglass, and Sidney Stencil, not unlike those of Colonel ("Bat") Guano, Merkin Muffley, and other characters' names in the Kubrick film. (Of course, it's altogether possible Pynchon *read* Terry Southern - and, in any case, both of them were "hipsters" who liked to "party!")
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