Forehead slappers .'.

Musical puns reminded me of a couple of literary gags that I only recently noticed (forgive me if I already hit you with these, or if they're common knowledge or something, I just love things that feel like they should be obvious but were heretofore unnoticed...
(PLEASE feel free to add your own in 'comments', I'll put up more as I think/remember 'em)


1. The Illuminatus Trilogy - this one's probably obvious to most Americans - but - the name of the character "Saul Goodman" is a simple permutation of 'S all good, man' ("It's all good, man"). reasonably general purpose, but used for "you're welcome" or "no worries" or "okay" etc..
The phrase only stuck around because the usage is similar in italian "tutto bene."
(Incidentally - Saul is from the Hebrew "Sha'ul" meaning "desired," "[longed/prayed] for", it's also the pre-christian name for Saint Paul. Completely irrelevant, but hey..)

2. A Clockwork Orange - the ludovico technique. My undereducated latin tells me that means "I play, I conquor." Was that his intention, or is there a different reason he used the name? Like perhaps, it sounds a lot like "Ludwig"? Alex (Alexandros) - "defending men" from Greek alexein "to defend, help" and aner "man" (genitive andros). (Thanks to www.behindthename.com)


I am really interested in any other things like that that people may have noticed - we're living in a television inflicted world of surface level literature, I'll take any practice I can get reading into things :)