Where We're At: Parts 3.11-3.12: Bilocations

Kit

• Is in Gottingen with fellow students Gottlob and Humfried. Yashmeen's there, too. Kit meets Yashmeen.
• Yashmeen's out to prove Riemann's Hypothesis and she's feeling overly chaperoned.
• Kit compares how people are pouring into town with a silver camp in Colorado.
• They flirt; Yashmeen tells Kit about the TWIT and the "ghostly neo-Pythagorean cult of tetralatry or worship of the number four"
• Gottlob and Humfried show up at Kit's room; trying to hide, Yashmeen opens a door that didn't exist before and finds herself at the base of the city's coordinate system -- "return to zero." This kind of thing has happened to her before.
• Yashmeen explains to Kit that the political crisis in Europe maps into the crisis in (various school of) mathematics.
• The (1905) Russian Revolution is going on, and Russians are fleeing to all over Europe.
• Yashmeen is originally Russian; she was sold into slavery following a raid, and she sees her birth family in dreams.
• Yashmeen takes up with Gunther von Quassel.
• Gunther finds Yashmeen in Kit's room (with Humfried, as well) and challenges Kit to a duel. They end up talking math instead.
• Among the Russians is someone Yashmeen recognizes from Cambridge -- Sid, who's calling himself Chong. Werfner notices him as well and regards him as a spy sent by Renfrew.
• Meanwhile Kit begins to frequent the Applied Mechanics institute. He's interested in aerodynamics.

Lew Basnight

• Is still in London at the TWIT.
• Police Inspector Vance Aychrome of Scotland Yard comes to see him. Lew deals his (own?) Tarot cards and finds XII, The Hanged Man (and not XV, Renfrew and Werfner). The Hanged Man is currently Lamont Replevin, an antiques dealer. He's been selling a lot of stuff found by Germans in Inner Asia. Add to that that Sands was concerned about Shambhala and the Gas Office (communication by coal gas) is concerned about Replevin as well.
• Lew gets called to the Grand Cohen's office. Nookshaft's term as Grand Cohen is almost done; he's happy to be going back to being Associate Cohen soon. He tells Lew that Replevin has come into possession of a map of Shambhala--which everyone is after. But, notes Nookshaft, the map makes no sense unless viewed through a paramorphoscope.
• Lew picks the lock at Replevin's house (where the floor is "black floor-tiles, each surrounded by silvery grouting, some composite with that soft a shine to it") and finds Replevin hanging from the ceiling like the figure on the Tarot card listening to the daily gas broadcast (Lew tries to rescue him--oops). As a cover Lew explains himself as Gus Swallowfield, insurance underwriter for Pike's Peak Life and Casualty, and tries to sell insurance to Replevin. Replevin takes Lew up to his office, and Lew sees the map of Shambhala. He photographs it (purportedly photographing other stuff).
  
• Chaos = gas.

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