PAGES | PLACE | MAJOR CHARACTERS | FOCAL POINTS | YEAR [as indicated by historical events] |
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359-73 | Colorado to New Orleans
[and on to Mexico] |
Reef Traverse
Stray Briggs & baby Jesse Flaco the Anarchist Wolfe Tone O’Rooney [“Eusebio Gomez”] Ruperta Chirpingdon-Groin |
family drama
Kieselguhr Kid Anarchism Mexican Revolution |
1903 |
374-96 | Mexico (El Paso to Guanajuato; then toward Sierra Madre] | Frank Traverse
Ewball Oust Dwayne Provecho “El Espinero” (Tarahumara duende) Sloat Fresno |
Iceland Spar
amalgamation Wild West (ÔMexican’ version) bilocation (Frank dreams of an airship) lawlessness (are bandidos Anarchists?) indigenous myth/spirituality drugs (hallucinogenic) |
1904-
(refs to Huertistas & Flores Magn brothers) |
397-448 | Candlebrow University (Ohio); then to Inner Asia to under-sand battle | Chums of Chance
Prof. Vanderjuice Dr. Zoot Alonzo Meatman Roswell Bounce (inventor; nemesis of Vibe) Capt. Zane Toadflax (of the Saksaul) Stilton Gaspereaux |
Time Travel conference
maps of unknown places (Sfincuino Itinerary) Trespassers (escapees from the future) Hypops equipment (for travel under sand) Petroleum Manichean philosophy |
|
449-59 | Colorado to Candlebrow U. | Merle Rideout
Roswell Bounce |
Time Travel conference
light/energy as new gold rush Quaternions |
1904-? |
460-71 | El Paso to New Mexico to Colorado | Frank Traverse
Mayva Traverse Rev. Moss Gatlin |
family drama
Cripple Creek miners’ strike |
1904- |
472-88 | Colorado back to Midwest (Decatur, Ill.; Wall o’ Death, Mo.) | Deuce Kindred
Lake Traverse Tace Boilster (Lake’s friend/confidante) |
family drama
fathers, daughters; co-dependence; “saving” men |
1905- (a few years) |
489-504 | London/
Oxford, England |
Neville and Nigel
Yasmeen Halfcourt Cyprian Lakewood |
spying, surveillance
Quaternions Time Travel time-based weapon |
early 1900s |
505-47 | en route to Europe on steamer Stupendica; Ostend, Belgium | Kit Traverse
Dally Rideout Erlys Zombini Zombini family Root Tubsmith (fellow math. student) 4 “Belgian nihilists”; also Rocco & Pino Pliade & Piet Woevre Omeki Tshrigane |
family drama (Dally’s real father); adventure story
ocean liner battleship bilocation Quanternion conference in Ostend Anarchists (Young Congo) African colonialism; King Leopold “death by mayonnaise” spying, surveillance |
1904 |
548-67 | Ostend and Bruges, Belgium | Chums of Chance
Kit Traverse Root Tubsmith Omeki Tshrigane |
Trespassers (WW I looming)
time-based weapon (calcite) spying, surveillance |
1905? |
568-87 | Venice | Dally Rideout
Hunter Penhallow Andrea Tancredi Principe/sa Spongiatosta |
Art and politics
Hell; chaos / order [p. 585, Hunter refers to destruction of The City p. 155] |
1905-06 |
588-604 | Gottingen, Germany | Kit Traverse
Yasmeen Halfcourt Gnther von Quassel Gottlob & Humfried Renfrew/ Werfner |
Quaternionists vs. Vectorists
Theosophy, spiritualism Riemann; Zeta function |
1905 |
605-614 | London | Lew Basnight | chaos/order
spying, surveillance Shambhala antiquities sinister gas |
|
615-636 | Gottingen [Gunther returns to family plantation in Mexico at end] | Kit Traverse
Yasmeen Halfcourt Gnther von Quassel Dr. Dingkopf Foley Walker a jelly doughnut |
Aether
Jews Theosophy, Spiritualism |
|
637-651 | Mexico (Tampico to El Paso) | Gunther von Quassel
Frank Traverse Ewbal Oust Dwayne Provecho Wolfe Tone O’Reilly Stray Briggs |
family drama
Mexican Revolution Anarchism |
1904 |
652-660 | Austrian/ Swiss border at Alps | Reef Traverse
Fulvio, Ramiz, Nikos, Gerhardt [miners] Ruperta Chirpingdon-Groin Scarsdale Vibe Lionel Swome (TWIT agent) |
mining, dynamite
Tþtzelwurm [link to Arctic figure: indigenous beliefs] Anarchism European elite pleasures: spas, gambling |
|
661-677 | Austrian/ Swiss border at Alps
[Yashmeen to Vienna &Budapest at end; Kit to Inner Asia] |
Kit Traverse
Reef Traverse Ruperta Chirpingdon-Groin Mme. Eskimoff |
Spirituality [sance where Reef speaks with Webb]
European elite pleasures: spas, gambling |
|
678-93 | London | Lew Basnight
Nigel & Neville Renfrew/ Werfner Col. Max Khäutsch [was Archduke’s bodyguard in Chicago, 1st chapter] |
bilocation
spying/surveillance/detection Tarot |
|
697-723 | Trieste; Vienna | Cyprian Latewood
Derrick Theign [F.O.] Col. Max Khatsch Misha & Grisha |
Foreign Office; international intrigue
vampirism Hell |
“a few years out of university”: 1905? |