| PAGES | PLACE | MAJOR CHARACTERS | FOCAL POINTS | YEAR [as indicated by historical events] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 724-47 | Venice | Scarsdale Vibe
Hunter Penhallow Dally Rideout Kit Traverse Reef Traverse Andrea Tancredi Principe/sa Spongiatosta [agent for Derrick Theign] |
apocalypse (Hunter’s “symbolist” paintings)
assasination (attempted) Anarchism European elite pleasures: spas, gambling |
1905? |
| 748-778 | Kashgar [trek toward Siberia; Lake Baikal incident] | Kit Traverse
Auberon Halfcourt [F.O.] Col. Yevgeny Prokladka [AH’s Russian “double”] Capt. Igor Padzhinitoff’s airship Doosra [prophet] Dwight Prance |
family drama (Yashmeen’s adoptive father)
Shambhala prophecy, revelation Foreign Office; international intrigue maps to unknown places |
1906-08 |
| 779-791 | Tunguska, Siberia [trek back westward via Tuva] | Kit Traverse
Dwight Prance Fleetwood Vibe Chums of Chance [take Dwight with them] |
Tunguska Event
Tesla experiments Quaternion weapon |
1908 |
| 792-797 | Siberia | Chums of Chance [repudiating Upper Command] | Tunguska Event | 1908 |
| 797-805 | Venice | Dally Rideout
Cyprian Latewood Reef Traverse |
European elite pleasures: spas, gambling
Foreign Office; international intrigue |
1906-08 |
| 806-48 | Vienna to Trieste [Yashmeen] ; Vienna to Bosnia & trek to Salonica via mountains [Cyprian] | Yashmeen Halfcourt
Cyprian Latewood Ratty McHugh; Bevis Moustleigh [F.O.] Misha & Grisha Col. Khäutsch Vlado Clissan Damilo Ashkil |
spying, surveillance, detection
Foreign Office; international intrigue “Idiotics Office” Balkans self-determination |
late 1908-09 |
| 849-863 | Nice to Venice | Reef Traverse
Yashmeen Halfcourt Vlado Clissan Rocco & Pino Derrick Theign |
assasination [Vlado]
European elite pleasures: spas, gambling Foreign Office; international intrigue |
1908-09? |
| 864-891 | Venice
(then the triangle moves toward Pyrenees) |
Cyprian Latewood
Derrick Theign [now “mad”] Principe/sa Spongiatosta Ratty McHugh; Bevis Moistleigh Yashmeen Halfcourt Reef Traverse [triangle begins] Wolfe Tone O’Reilly |
Hunter Penhallow’s paintings; Hell
revenge drama [Vlado’s Uskok people get Theign] Carnevale, masks ghosts (Reef dreams of father again) Anarchism gambling |
1908-09? |
| 892-918 | London (Kit and Dally meet in Szeged, Hungary) | Dally Rideout
Hunter Penhallow Ruperta Chirpingdon-Groin (agent of TWIT) Arturo Naunt (sculptor) Clive Crouchmas R. Wilshire Vibe Lew Basnight |
vaudeville, stage
angel of death statues Spiritualism, Tarot spying, surveillance (Dally) Quaternion weapon (Japanese have it; 906) |
1909 (RVW premiere, 896) |
| 919-930 | Mexico (Chihuahua) | Frank Traverse
Ewball Oust Wren Provenance El Espinero |
Mexican Revolution
Aztln (not unlike Shambhala; Frank’s dream 925 also prefigures Mexico City during decena trgica) indigenous spirituality drugs (hallucinogenic) |
1911 (Casas Grandes) |
| 931-975 | along the Riviera: Biarritz to Yz-les-Bains; then into Balkans (Zagreb, Beograd, Transylvania, Valley of Roses, convent in Bulgarian mtns.; then, as refugeees, to Corfu via Albania) | Reef Traverse
Yashmeen Halfcourt Cyprian Latewood Ratty McHugh (and two suffragette “wives”) Prof. Sleepcoat baby Ljubica (“Violet”) Auberon Halfcourt Umeki Tsurigane |
Anarchism’s failure to account for feminism (934)
maps, in code (Balkans=Belgian Congo) Anarchist’s Golf musical anthropology hidden railway (Interdikt line) sinister gases; gas=light 953 convent of the Orpheus cult (link to Pythagoreans; another hidden city) “feminine aspect of God” 960 refugees Shambhala |
1912 (invasion of Macedonia, First Balkan War, 963) |
| 976-981 | Mexico to Colorado (Denver) | Stray Briggs
Ewball Oust Mayva Traverse Oust family (“plutocrats”) |
family drama (reunion)
Colorado labor troubles |
|
| 982-999 | Mexico City; Chiapas; Vera Cruz to Colorado | Frank Traverse
El Espinero Gnther von Quassel Melpómene Dr. Willis Turnstone Wren Provenance Ewball Oust |
Mexican Revolution (Frank with Orozco)
Anarchism dynamite (trains as weapons: mquina loca) cucuji beetles; dreams; indigenous spirituality |
late 1912-1913 |
| 1000-1017 | Colorado (resorts;Trinidad/ Ludlow strike & tent colony) | Scarsdale Vibe
Foley Walker Frank Traverse Ewball Oust Mother Jones Stray Briggs Jesse Traverse Rev. Moss Gatlin |
Colorado labor troubles
Balkan war (miners are refugees, 1003) family drama/revenge |
1914 (Ludlow Massacre) |
| 1018-1039 | Counter-Earth (via Saharan Updraft); Switzerland; Los Angeles | Chums of Chance (with Ksenjia & Pugnax)
Capt. Padzhitinoff’s airship Sodality of Aetheronauts Roswell Bounce Merle Rideout |
maps of unknown places
alternate universe/history World War I Aether |
1914- |
| 1040-1062 | Los Angeles | Lew Basnight
Lake Traverse Deuce Kindred Roswell Bounce Merle Rideout Luca Zambini |
spying/surveillance/detection
alternate histories/universes photography/light noir crime fiction |
1920’s? (1043 “before the earthquake” of 1925; motion picture golden age; flappers–but Merle communicates with Dallybefore war ends..?) |
| 1065- | Paris (1915-17 in Torino, Italy); upper Pacific Northwest U.S. | Dally Rideout
Kit Traverse Reef Traverse Yashmeen Halfcourt (Ljubica 5 y.o.) Colfax Vibe Frank Traverse Stray Briggs (Ginger, Plebecula) Prof. Vanderjuice Chums of Chance |
World War I
Shambhala maps |
1915-18
1920s (p. 1084) |