Where We're At: Part 3.18: Bilocations

Lew Basnight

• Lew runs into Prof. Renfrew at the theater in London. He's with Max Khautsch. Whoops, that's Werfner, not Renfrew. They look a lot alike. Why is Werfner where he should not be? "[s]ome symmetry was being broken."
• Lew reports to Nookshaft, the Cohen, that Werfner's in London. Nookshaft's not surprised and kind of suggests that it might be nice if Lew would kill him.
• Lew talks to Nigel and Neville about the resemblance between Renfrew and Werfner and realizes that they're just playing the role of twit, and that Renfrew and Werfner are the same person--he's got some paranormal power to be in at least two places at one time. He also realizes that everyone at the TWIT knew, except him; he was played. he feels released from some sense of obligation to TWIT.
• Lew talks with Dr. Otto Ghloix, who's visiting from Switzerland, about bilocation. Ghloix says it's a manifestation of a "deep and fatal contradiction" within the person. And who better than a fallen geographer who might have found Shambhala, found salvation for mankind?
• Is work just penance? "[T]o live in the world [is] to do penance.... Being unable to remember sins from a previous life won't excuse you from doing penance in this one. To believe in the reality of penance is almost to have proof of rebirth."
• Lew goes to Cambridge to see Renfrew who talks about how the railroads are the key to the Balkans--look at the map from a distance. Renfrew tells him that the Gentleman Bomber is in Cambridge. Is that related to Werfner? At the cricket stadium, Lew either sees or doesn't see a mysterious armed man.
• Lew talks to Dr. Coombs de Bottle to ask about carbonyl chloride--what the Gentleman Bomber uses.
• The Grand Cohen suggests the Bomber might be a Messenger.
• Suddenly everyone else has left town and Lew's left alone.
• Lots of mail is being received with weird Swiss stamps, like what's on a letter from Yashmeen.
• Lew leaves the TWIT.

end part 3. page 693.