Talk:Basil/@comment-174.230.16.99-20201121143212

Kubric added a snake in ACO because Alex (McDowell) was afraid of them and Kubric was lets say...eccentic. A pet snake does not appear in the book. Basil is a European legend about a king serpant. Jim Morrison was inspired to ride Basil. Basil could also be a cognate of Basel, Switserland, which is home to the influential and soverign Bank of International Settlement; established to collect reparations from Germany post WW2.