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THEMES/TIDBITS
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Parallel between Cayce's unravelling of the mystery of the footage and
the mystery behind her father's death.  Also similar to Nora's footage
quest.

Parallel between Cayce's cathartic digging of the grey muck at the dig
and 9-11 rescuers searching for survivors in the WTC rubble.  Digging
for her father.  Also similar to Nora's quest to map the t-shaped
detonator in her head.

Stucka plane buried in mud, planes buried in WTC debries.

Buried stucka pilot, Win Pollard.  Empty limo in WTC debris vs. stucka
pilot perfectly preserved in the plane.

Interesting, but not important:
 - Excerpts from father's tape talk about "the bone.. in the head"
 - Damien's shower reminds Cayce of a shower Russians would use to
decontaminate you

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OUTLINE
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(1) The Web site of the Dreadful Night
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London, Camden Town
CP staying at Damien's pad
Mirror-world (US vs. England)

*Jet lag: result of the soul moving slower

Stuff:
 - Helmot Newton's _Jane Birkin_
 - Tarkovsky's _The Stalker_
 - Tuffaut
 - Peckinpah

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(2) Bitch
********************

CPU (Cayce Pollard Units)
 - Black/white/gray clothing
 - Unmanufactured look, logo-free
 - Mimimal, design-free, message free

Dorotea = bitch

Cayce rejects Dorotea's logo design
 
Dorotea burns Cayce's jacket with cigarette

*"Jacques Cousteau said that jet lag was his favorite drug"

Stuff:
 - Buzz Rickson's MA-1 flying jacket
 - Cartoonist Rick Griffin
 - Lighter engravings:
   - "If I had a farm in hell and a house in Vietnam I'd sell them both"
   - "Bury me face down so the world can kiss my ass"
   - "There is no gravity.  The world sucks"
   - "Phu Cat"
   
********************
(3) The Attachment
********************
 
Cayce has an allergic reaction to Tommy Hilfiger
 - derivative of derivative, event horizon of derivative
 - Jermyn Street + Savile Row -> Brooks Brothers -> Ralph Lauren -> Tommy

Footage #135

Stuff:
 - Cathar Heresy

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(4) Math Grenades
********************
 
Cool hunting at Notting Hill Market

Cayce meets the hand grenade calculator merchants (curtas)

*"He took a duck in the face at 250 knots" (pg.34)

Hand grenade calculator merchants
 - Hobbs
 - Ngemi
 - Voytek Biroshak

*"Homo sapiens is about pattern recognition"
 
Stuff:
  - Curtas
    - mechanical calculator
    - Curt Herzstark ~1945, in concentration camp (Pankraz)
  - Sinclair ZX81
    - Timex 1000
    - 1K RAM, programmable
  - Trepanning
  - Lithotomy set by Grangeret
  - Bow drill

********************
(5) What they deserve
********************
 
Children's Crusade, Camden Town sat. night

Break-in at Damien's apartment
 - browser url clues Cayce in, site she never visited
 - Tape on floor

Cayce redial's phone and gets Dorotea

********************
(6) The Match Factory
********************

Completists vs. progressives

New locks at Damien's pad

Dinner at Stonestreet's (Match Factory)

Hubertus Bigend, Lombard

*History:
 - a best guess narrative
 - "The future is there looking back at us trying to make sense of the fiction we have become"
 - The one constant in history is change: the past changes

Stuff: 
 - Baudrillard
 - Lombard: loads of money but a real dickhead
 - Spongiform encephalopathy

********************
(7) The Proposition
********************

Bigend asks Cayce to find the maker, Cayce weakly turns down offer

*An incomplete artistic work cannot be reassembled (remixed)
 
Stuff:
 - Robot girl knuckleduster

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(8) Watermark
********************

Damien writes from The Dig

Footage #135 on CNN

Parkaboy, with translation help of Musashi, believes #78 is watermarked with a number

Parkaboy has been posting on Japanese footage boards as Keiko

Stuff:
 - Otaku coven
 - 17 stories of twisted, impacted girder

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(9) Trans
********************

Cayce runs into Voytek and Billy Prion
 - meets Voytek's sister Magda

Magda marketing footage.  Covent Garden

*Cayce=Pattern recognizer

*Magda=Pattern creator

********************
(10) Jack Moves, Jane Faces
********************

Dorotea jack moves Cayce, shows her Bibendum
 - few know Cayce's Bibendum weakness (family, shrink)
 
Cayce accepts revised shoe logo

Cayce forgets to relock door

Stuff:
 - Jack move: (from Donny) deliberate, lateral move
 - Jane face: stripper speak
 - Bibendum: Michelin Man
 - Pilates

******************** 
(11) Boone Chu
********************

Boone's Rice friend noticed hidden footage data

Cayce mentions watermark, sets things in motion

Stuff: 
 - Britain, Japan: don't import much, make their own.  Things different from the ground up
 - Cibachrome, Turner print

******************** 
(12) Apophenia
********************

Win - father?

Pamela Mainwaring

Cayce gets Voytek to hold onto Damien's new house keys

Cynthia, Cayce's mom

Stuff:
 - EVP: Electronic Voice Phenomena
   - dead voices in tape background
   - sixth sense
 - Apophenia: spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things
   - coined by Win (Cayce's father)

********************   
(13) Little Boat
********************

Aboard British Airways
 - Billy Prion and Velcro Kitty girlfriend on board (coincidence?)

Cayce's new iBook has CD-ROM with indexed F:F:F

Ivy introduced (sysop for F:F:F)

Stuff:
 - Agnes B Homme

******************** 
(14) The Gavin Face of Bikkle
********************

Cayce lands in Tokyo.  Narita->Shinjuku

Veiled 9/11 reference

White gloves

Jennifer Brossard, Blue Ant

Cayce walks through seedy district at night

Gibson riffing on Tokyo

Parkaboy sends Cayce (with "Judy Tsuzuki" present) to catch Taki
 - Taki knows hidden message in footage
 - Parkaboy lured Taki in with young Asian girl persona. 
 - Darryl provides the translation
 - Real Judy Tsuzuki is used for photographs

*Tokyo: "floating jumple of electric lego"

Stuff:
 - Crepuscular calm
 - Kabuki-cho: Sleepless castle

********************
(15) Singularity
********************

Story of Win Pollard's disappearance

Cayce reliving 9/11

Soul-delay gone

*9/11: "It will be like watching one of her own dreams on television.  Some vast and deeply personal insult to any ordinary notion of interiority.  // An experience outside of culture"


********************
(16) Going Mobile
********************

Cayce asks Broassard for a new Rickson's

Cayce gets a lavish haircut and new CPUs

Judy Tsuzuki photo printed and signed

Parkaboy sets up Taki meeting
 - Mystic group has the number
 - 9/11 in the US
 - Meet at bar in Roppongi
 - Nomiya: Red Lantern Bar

Stuff:
 - Hello Kitty, Kogepan, Boneless panda
 - Muji, parco

********************
(17) Making Mayhem
********************

Cayce finally meets Taki
 - gives him photo, he goes away quickly
 - gets number hidden in footage: 8304 6805 2235

Cayce "makes mayhem" on two men outside bar that tried to attack her
 - headbutt, stamp

Boone Chu rescues her on scooter
 - Boone had been following her in Kabuki-cho, outside Starbucks clone
 - Switch clothes and scooter with Yakuza kids

*"Making Mayhem": self defense appropriate for a British prison
 - Taught to Cayce by SAS Scot
*"Blade Runnered"

Stuff:
 - Roppongi: border town
 - Henry Africa's: Ex-pat bar
 - Noren
 
********************
(18) Hongo
********************

Boone and Cayce go to Boone's ex's apartment in Hongo
 - Marisa.  Pre-war apartment

Boone reveals that they have been followed since Camden Town by Italian-speaking men.  Cayce suspects Dorotea.

Boone examines Cayce's laptop for bugs.

Stuff:
 - Hongo: near Tokyo University
 
********************
(19) Into the Mystic
********************

Cayce gets a new Rickson's courtesy of Blue Ant

Parkaboy sends Cayce "wondrous strange" map
 - split-t bone

Stuff:
 - Beat Takeshi reference: "existential gangster films"

********************
(20) Uber-Bones
********************

Cayce and Boone fly to London.  Bigend picks them up.

Boone withholds info on map and head-butting.  Also doesn't mention Dorotea.

Damien is home with "uber bones" model, Marina Chtcheglova

Stuff:
 - Tokyo airport security
   - "cat scan" for shoes
   - blush detector: IR aimed at skin around eyes.  Tries to detect lies

********************
(21) The Dead Remember
********************

Fergal, Voytek, Marina, Damina, and Cayce at Damien's

Voyte wants Marina to fund gallery project

Damien's description of Russian site
 - Part 3-month '68 rock concert, mass public grave robbing, Apocalype Now
 - securing more funding

Boone gets copy of map

Cayce's move send her exp of "Win"
 - mystery of Win's disappearance

Stuff:
 - "Its more the way now than it's ever been" - Ike
 - Count angels on pinheads

********************
(22) Tarn
********************

Coffee with Damien
 - Damien going back to Russia
 - Marina's father connected (old new Russian), helps with project

Stuff:
 - tarn/flecktarn: camo cloth
 - Glaswegan accent
 - Old new Russian: made money looting new Russia

********************
(23) Dickheads
********************

Cayce ponders changes in her life, new-found secrecy
 - result of 9/11 wake?

Judy Tsuzuki mad at Darryl
 - Darryl showed her Taki e-mails
 - Judy wants to write Taki
 - They're all dickheads

Bigend summons Cayce to Blue Ant
 - Cayce runs into Franco (Dorotea's driver) entering Blue Ant
 - Franco's face is injured - he was on the receiving end of Dorotea's headbutt in Tokyo
 
*Covent Garden, covered in snow.  Snow hides imprint of modern times

********************
(24) Cyprus
********************

Cayce meets with Bigend, Dorotea, Boone
 - Dorotea hired by Blue Ant on the fast track - client liason

Boone told Bigend about Cayce's Dorotea suspicions.  All of them true.

Dorotea hired by Russian in Cyprus to prevent Cayce from working with Blue Ant - make her uneasy.
 - got copy of Cayce's shrink's notes.

Pamela Mainwaring betrayed Cayce in Japan for Dorotea

Bigend relying on Dorotea's allegiance to her career.

********************
(25) Sigil
********************

Starbucks does not trigger Cayce's allergies

Boone explains himself to Cayce
 - Cayce mildly trusts him again

Watermark possibly done by Sigil Technologies

Boone going to Sigil HQ in Columbus, Ohio for a social hack

********************
(26) Sigint
********************

Magda invites Cayce to dinner
 - Voytek and Ngemi also there

Voytek talks about his art project, scaffolding, funding

Ngemi buying Stephen King's Wang instead of funding Voytek as previously promised.

Magda spills the beans on Hobbs
 - Hobbs worked in intel community

Hobbs unable to secure bid on rare curta

Magda et al want CP to fund them

********************
(27) The Shape of the Enthuisiast
********************

Cayce Pollard Central Standard

F:F:F still discussing #78 and Brazilian satanic footage

Boone e-mails from Ohio, nothing special

Parkabody e-mail: Judy falling for Taki even though he's a perv.  Judy living with Darryl now

Ivy e-mail
 - found out from La Anarchia that Cayce was in Tokyo
 - La Anarchia clumsily (deliberatly?) fishing for info on Cayce
 - Mentions Cayce's post that maker had possible backing of Russian Mafia or the like for funding (hint?)

Margot e-mail: mentions that someone may have broken into Cayce's apartment.

Cayce has dream of seeing man from footage in West Broadway with fresh snow
 - Followed by vision of dad holding curta.
 - "The dead can't help you, and the boy's no good."

Stuff:
 - Man from U.N.C.L.E.
 
********************
(28) Within the meaning
********************

Cayce accompanies Ngemi to visit Hobbs
 - Bournemouth, Gypsy caravan

Ngemi loves the artifact history, Hobbs loves idea of artifact
 - Boone: ultimate provenance of the curtas: maker continued work/vision through the concentration camp

Find Hobbs place, next to former MI6/MI6 training ground
 
********************
(29) Protocol
********************

Ngemi gets curtas for deal from Hobbs

Hobbs threatens Cayce with a dirt-filled gun
 - Ngemi: "this is England, girl.  People don't have guns"

Cayce offers Hobbs a deal
 - Hobbs gets curtas that Lucian Greenaway out-negotiated Hobbs for
 - Cayce gets e-mail address of person that received watermarked Kiss segment

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(30) .RU
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More Hobbs background (Harvard/Grandfather of Echelon)

Hobbs calling in old favors, of which he has a limited amount

e-mail from Parkaboy: Judy still at Darryl's

Boone e-mail: no info

Hobbs already has e-mail.  Ends in .ru
 - uses "H-B", hyphen

********************
(31) The Protocol
********************

Cayce annoyed by British attention to class

Cayce purchases Curtas from Greenaway with Ngemi to verify
 - Poses as daughter of a collector

Hobbs gives her the maker's e-mail:
 - stellanor@armaz.ru
 - Hobbs: "Baltic Oil, is it?"

Stuff:
 - Curtas IV Prototype
 
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(32) Participation Mystique
********************

Cayce writes stellanor@armaz.ru really long e-mail
 - father disappeared
 - mentions F:F:F
 - "Parkaboy thinks you're dreaming [for us]"
 - Cayce surprises herself by sending it

Andrei Polakov introduced 
 - owner of armaz.ru, 
 - Dorotea's financer

Cayce calls Boone who's busy with woman

Stellanor responds
 - father also dead
 - curious

Sylvie Jefferson (Blue Ant) help Cayce with Russian Visa

Cayce heads for Aeroflot

Stuff:
 - Coleridge, DeQuincey
 - Liminal, Katherine McNally

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(33) Bot
********************

Cayce e-mails mom, tells her she's headed for Moscow

Cayce e-mails Parkaboy, tells him she's found the maker, more info later

Cayce e-mails Stellanor, will be in Moscow

Cayce reviews her flippant remakr on F:F:F post about Russian Mafia
 - Mama Anarachia's post start after this remark

Parkaboy criteria for authentic Anarchia post: "hegemony" and "hermeneutics"

*"Hitler had entirely too brilliant a graphics department"

*Poland from the air looksl ike Kansas farmed by elves

Stuff:
 - Derridean "play" and excessiveness
 - Foucauldian limit-attitude
 - Lyotardian language games
 - Lacanian imaginaries
 - Praxis
 - Jamesonian Nostalgia
 - Habermasian fears of irrationalism

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(34) Zamoskvarech
********************

Cayce tells Parkaboy that she's been working for Bigend

Parkaboy = Peter Gilbert

Armaz.ru - Russian Oil

Stuff:
 - Moscow: Like Vienna, but not really
 - Moscow: Like Stockholm, but not really

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(35) Caffeine
********************

Cayce meets Stella Volkova at Caffeine

Beginning of footage
 - Nora made three films prior to injury, one shown in Cannes
 - After injury, recut Cannes film to one frame (blurry bird in
   flight)
 - Nora notices footage of nurse outside.  Doctors bring her editing
   equipment.  Takes frame of staff member and reconstructs it in
   photoshop

Stella responded to Cayce b/c she felt she was legit
 
Stuff:
 - Bolshov Kamennii Most: Big Stone Bridge
 - Fish sculpture: Medaglia d'Oro coffee can scales
 - Fish sculpture: Kandinsky coffee cans
 - Fish sculpture: Gehry construction
 - Unmarked car with blue lights for vips, get to speed around
 
********************
(36) The Dig
********************

Damien dig update
 - unearth a stucka in museum condition
 - pilot still in cockpit
 - got footage of diggers tearing apart pilot for belongings

Stuff:
 - The Face

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(37) Kino
********************

Cayce meets Nora in old squat, popular in 80s

Don't know if footage is linear narrative

Nora completes footage by taking small elements from actual footage
 - mapping t-shaped city, brain
 - couple resembles parents, but not their story

Cayce cries, wants to take metro home

Stuff: 
 - Victor Tsoi

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(38) Puppenkopf
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Cayce bounces around on metro for two hours

Checks e-mail, tells Parkaboy Stella's e-mail addy

Returns to hotel, confronted by Dorotea
 - Dorotea is Anarchia
 - Dorotea drugs Cayce's water
 - Cayce grabs knuckleduster

Andrei Volkov: the invisible oligarch

Cayce's only EVP experience, pg. 315
 
Stuff:
 - Subway platforms are "subterreanean ballrooms"
 - Bankers War 1993
 - Puppenkopf: puppethead

********************
(39) Red Dust
********************

Cayce wakes up in institutional hospital

Hops fence, ruins second Rickson's

Collapses, hallucinates dad

Helicopter approaches

Stuff:
 - Bikkle
 - Parco Boots

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(40) The Dream Academy
********************

Dream Academy
 - only prison that people to break into
 - Volkov's privatized hospital
 - cleaner, less risk of TB
 - Rendering farm for footage

Parkaboy's story
 - Cayce made mayhem on Dorotea
 - Three men with black coats showed up, took away Dorotea
 - Parkaboy e-mailed Stella, was picked up
 - ended up in the same room with Bigend, Volkov, Stella, Boone
 - Boone hacked Cayce's e-mail

Stuff:
 - MAWG: Middle-Aged White Guy
 - Steven Sisters skyscrapers

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(41) A Toast to Mr. Pollard
********************

Cayce has dinner with guests
 - meets Volkov, who has to take off
 - Bigend, Wiktor, Parka, Sergei

Sergei Magomedov
 - Translator
 
Wiktor Marchwinka-Wyral
 - new security chief to Volkov
 - split between old guard and new guard in Volkov's camp

Sergei helped plan productions of footage, Stella wanted global
audience

Volkov had two security operations
 - 1) to protect him (KGB like)
 - 2) monitor Web
 - poorly coordinated WRT Cayce, didn't like her father's intel
   background or her mafia post.
 - Hired Dorotea to track Cayce.
 - Had Cayce's shrink records stolen
 - Didn't like Cayce working with Bigend

Volkov's folks eager to know how Cayce got Stella's e-mail, thought
her father had a role, even though he's probably dead
 
Toast to Win

Volkov paid American grad students to monitor F:F:F 

Marchwinka gives Cayce folder of everything they know about Win's
disappearance, also receives briefcase gift from Volkov

Stuff:
 - Systema-Russian martial art

********************
(42) His Missingness
********************

Bigend didn't know Boone was hacking Cayce's e-mail
 - asked Boone to leave
 - "Because he pretends to be better at what he does than he is.  I
   prefer people who are better at what they do than they think they
   are."
 - Dorotea didn't know who she was workign for until late, panicked
   and tried to get information on how Cayce learned Stella's e-mail
 - "I think it's all actually about money for him... ultimately I find
   that was the whole problem, with most of the dot-com people."

Volkov's gift is $5M

Cayce reads account of Win's last moments

"Her mother had once said that when the second plane hit, Win's
chagrin, his personal and professional mortification at this having
happened, at the perimeter having been so easily, so terribly
breached, would have been such that he might simply have ceased, in
protest, to exist."


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(43) Mail
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FOOTAGE/DIG
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Followers of the Footage
 - Kim Hee Park, The Chinese Envoy

Footage:
 - Footage surfaces anonymously on the Net
 - Completists vs. progressives
 - "garage kubrick" (ch. 6)
 - Is lack of period-making a statement on the fluidity of history? (ch. 6)
 - Complete footage can be reassembed (e.g. Phantom Edit).  The footage, by its incompleteness cannot.
 - No one can profit off the maker (yet)
 - Brazil vs. Vatican: is auteur the devil? Hoax?
 - Spielberg's Closet (Boone, ch. 11)
   - CGI requires too much for Garage Kubrick
 - Is footage apophenia (ch. 12)
 - Footage: (ch. 13)
   - blurred skyline
   - girl in formal park

Beginning of footage
 - Nora made three films prior to injury, one shown in Cannes
 - After injury, recut Cannes film to one frame (blurry bird in
   flight)
 - Nora notices footage of nurse outside.  Doctors bring her editing
   equipment.  Takes frame of staff member and reconstructs it in
   photoshop
      
Footage #78 (Kiss)
 - source of original watermark that was discovered
 - watermark done using Sigil software
 - 8304 6805 2235
 - "wondrous strange" map hidden within
   
"wondrous strange" map
 - split-t bone
 - aves, squares, circles
 - 135 numbers, 4-digit x 3.  8304 6805 2235 among them.
 - "streets" align with borders
 - decrypted from whiteout during the kiss
   
Mystic:
 - found hidden number in footage
 - Taki managed to get number from them, probably a peripheral helper
 - Mystic more likely info-heads not footage-heads
    
The Dig:
 - Stalingrad youth digging up old WWII Russia/Germany trench battlegrounds every year when ground unfreezes
 - Part 3-month '68 rock concert, mass public grave robbing, Apocalype Now
 - inspired by actual dig at Kirishi, close to St. Petersburg
 - guitar player from Blondie mentioned to Gibson
 - http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=+site:klad.hobby.ru+Focke+Wulf+

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PEOPLE
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Cayce Pollard
 - Logo-free
 - Cool hunter
 - Blue Ant
 - Cayce Pollard Units (ch. 2)
 - Cayce Pollard Central Standard (ch. 27)
 - Member of Fetish:Footage:Forum
 - "Specialized marketing litmus paper"
 - allergic (not emotional) reaction to bad logos
 - especially allergic to Tommy Hilfiger
 - work allergic reaction is to Bibendum
 - not allergic to Starbucks
    
Damien
 - Music director
 - Anti-decor
 - Based on Chris Cunningham (Bjork robot video)

Hubertus Bigend
 - Blue Ant founder
 - Lombard
 - History (ch. 7)
 - Industrialist father in Brussels
 - British boarding school
 - Harvard
 - Independent Hollywood producer
 - Brazil
 - Blue Ant founding
 - Interested in footage b/c it is a work of marketing genius (ch. 7)
 - 'Trans' is a pet project

Boone Chu
 - Chinese child in Oklahoma (ch. 11)
 - Orca Island home
 - Lives out of suitcase (laptop + cellphones)
 - failed start-up
 - social hacks (sleeping with women)
 
Dorotea Benedetti
 - Bitch
 - Heinzi & Pfaff shoe logo account
 - Responsible for break-in at Damien's apartment
 - Former French Industrial spy (ch. 7)

Andrei Polakov 
 - owner of armaz.ru, 
 - Dorotea's financer
 
Parkaboy
 - F:F:F friend of Cayce
 - hates La Anarchia (ch. 13)
 - real name: Parkaboy

La Anarchia
 - poster to F:F:F
 - starts posting after Cayce's Russian Mafia post (ch. 33)
 - Parkaboy criteria for authentic Anarchia post: "hegemony" and "hermeneutics" (ch. 33)
 - Actually Dorotea with help of hired translator
 
Stella and Nora
 - Stella is the distributor, Nora is the artist
 - Twins
 - Parents died in a bombing assassination
 - Studied in Paris
 - Bomb exploded in tree leaving Grandma's funeral, kills parents,
   injures Nora
 
Darryl
 - helps Parkaboy with Japanese translations

Ivy
 - Sysop for F:F:F
 
Win Pollard
 - Father of Cayce
 - former member of intelligence industry
 - disappearance
   - disappeared on 9/11
   - possibly visiting CIA contact at WTC
   - no known reason for being in NY
 - made humane crowd-control barriers
 
Pamela Mainwaring
 - Bigend travel assistant
 
Bernard Stonestreet
 - Blue Ant

Cynthia Pollard
 - cynthia@roseoftheworld.com
 - believes in EVP

Sergei Magomedov
 - Translator
 - helped plan production of footage
  
Wiktor Marchwinka-Wyral
 - new security chief to Volkov
 
Jennifer Brossard
 - Blue Ant

Hobbs
 - former member of intel community (NSA)
 - still sells sigint
 - now a squatter in caravan in Poole drinking himself to death
 - brokered many deals with Ngemi
 - loves idea of artifact (ch. 28)
   - ultimate provenance of the curtas: maker continued work/vision through the concentration camp
 - Harvard
 - father a Soviet diplomat
 - mother weathly English
 - importance of hyphen in name, or lack thereof
 - has limited number of favors from previous life that he deals for important things
 - grandfather of Echelon, perhaps

Ngemi
 - buyer/dealer
 - loves artifact history (ch. 28)

Voytek Biroshak
 - ZX81 collector

Trans
 - pet project of Bigend
 - marketing agency

Magda
 - Voytek's sister (ch. 9)
 - viral marketer for Trans

Billy Prion
 - Former lead singer for BSE
 - Gallery owner
 - Paralyzed half of his face with Botox intentionally

Taki
 - Otaku clan member, nows hidden message
 - mouth breather (ch. 17)
 - Japanese uber-geek
 - Probably not part of mystic, just a peripheral tool (ch. 19)

Marina Chtcheglova
 - difficult
 - "uber bones"
 - Damien's girlfriend

Fergal Collins
 - Damien's Irish accountant