Our America

© Copyright Vittorio Carvelli 2018

  

By the title 'Our America' we mean, of course, the 'America' that features in 'Club Jaguar', and not any other possible America - real or imagined.
Therefore this short article is included in order to explain any anomalies that a reader might notice between the 'America' of 'Club Jaguar' and the 'America' that may be familiar to the reader.
In the 'Multiverse' of Hugh Everett III there are, inevitably an almost infinite, (or maybe really an infinite), different versions of that 'place' and 'time' that we - in our world, know as the USA - America.

Native Americans Hunting Buffalo

The vast majority of theses 'Americas' will be practically identical to the America that we would know.

Perhaps just one tiny detail would differentiate them, one from another.

In other worlds, however, the differences would be enormous.

In some worlds the USA would be a smoking radioactive wasteland - the result of an un-winnable war with the USSR.

American Civil War

Some of these 'Americas' would be effected by changes ranging back to much earlier events - for example, the premature death of Lincoln, and the unexpected victory of the Confederate States.

Some Americas, (not even called 'America'), to go back even further, would be vast landscapes of prairie, on which would roam unimaginably large herds of bison, to be hunted by the original inhabitants of the continent.

Our America, in the story of Club Jaguar, however, is at least recognizable.

The 'Boss' Visits Caesars Palace

Caesars Palace - Casino

It would be quite possible for you to stroll around Las Vegas, and make your bets in Caesars Palace, without noticing anything untoward, or unusual, unless you were American yourself, and happened to notice the Stars and Stripes fluttering from some building.

If you look carefully at the arrangement of the stars on the header of this chapter you may just realize that the America of 'Club Jaguar' is just a little different - and in more ways than one......

Now it would be expecting a lot to presume that young Faunus, and little Glaux, would manage to get the 'Boss', and the 'boys' all back to the America that we - in this universe - know - so he sensibly chose the one that seemed best.

What was really surprising was that he managed to get them all back to the same America - although they didn't all arrive on time, and there were a few glitches, as Faunus himself admitted. And why America, anyway.

Well to Faunus it seemed like the next best place to ancient Rome - although he did get side tracked into Mexico and the Maya - partly because they were so 'bloodthirsty', and partly because they had the good sense to honour many gods - but more of the Maya later.

To Faunus, however, America appeared to be, with the exception of the Civil War, a peaceful country which, if it did fight wars, was sure to fight them in other peoples' countries.

John D Rockefeller

Samuel Moore Walton

It was also a culture in which much reverence was paid to personal wealth and status, and in which their existed a tradition of 'rags to riches' which was available to some.

Faunus had come up with Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Sam Walton (whose surname Faunus later selected for Josh) - to name just a few.

In this America that Faunus had found, it mattered less who your father or family were, and more about how much money you had in the bank.

Of course making money for his 'friends' was not a problem.
As Faunus had said before, 'I can have anything that I want' - after all, he was a 'magic' faun.

However, it helped if you were living in a culture where few people really cared where your money came from.

As such, individuals could suddenly appear, fabulously wealthy, and apparently from nowhere, and no question would be asked - and if they were, then it was easy to buy off the questioner.

Faunus noted that this America that he had found was undoubtedly as corrupt as the Empire that he had so 'recently' left - if not more so.
Faunus, along with the 'Boss' and the 'boys', however, had no knowledge of 'modern' history, and so accepted the social, political and economic situation in the 'world' that they came to be in as perfectly normal, which it also was for the inhabitants of that world. 

Somewhere along the 'time line', however, something had occurred that had skewed the America that they came to significantly away from the America that you, the reader, may know from your world, and it was more than just a matter of the number of stars on the 'star spangled banner'.

Cross Burning

The Civil war seemed to have occurred without any noticeable alterations, and the United States had equally participated in the First World War in the 'accepted' manner.

Divergence, however, occurred in the periods prior to, and during the Second World War.

Henry Ford

It seemed that between the wars, isolationism had become a strong political influence, delaying the entry of the United States into the conflict of the Second World War.

This was also part of a tendency towards and pronounced social, cultural and political conservatism.

This was partly under the influence of a resurgent religious revivalism, and partly the result of the influence of Ford's 'Dearborn Independent' ('The Ford International Weekly'), and the 'German American Bund', which also had the effect of making anti-Semitism endemic, particularly in the north of the 'States', while the resurgence of the  Ku Klux Klan, as a result of 'The Klansman', by Thomas F. Dixon, and 'Birth of a Nation' by  D. W. Griffith, had a similar effect in the South.

These influences also strongly effected the rate of immigration from Europe into the United States in the immediate pre-war period.

One of the results of these changes in this America was the fact that many eminent scientists and cultural figure who emigrated from Germany, Austria and central Europe ended up in Great Britain, rather than the United States.
So, no Einstein at Princeton.

This resulted in a technological slow-down in the USA, which prolonged their involvement in the Second World War, and slowed the industrial development of the USA in the immediate post war period.

Kennedy Family -  Hyannis Port Massachusetts - 1931

One individual that we might think of as being important in American history, Faunus didn't even notice.

This individual was the son of a wealthy, politically influential Massachusetts family.

In this different America they were not quite as influential as they might have been, however, as they were Catholics - and the insular, inward looking America of this 'world', and this period was not well disposed towards Catholics, seeing them in similar, but not such extreme terms as Jews and Negroes, or people of colour.

The ideal, of course, was the white, Anglo Saxon Protestant.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The individual concerned was John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Having irregularly attended Princeton and Harvard - the boy was constantly beset with illness - he eventually obtained a BA in government.

Through family influence Kennedy was then able to join the US Navy despite his physical disabilities.

 Joseph P. Kennedy Jr

In 1943, the patrol boat to which he was assigned was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, and all hands, including Kennedy were lost - and so, unknown to Faunus, there was no president Kennedy, no spurious 'Camelot', and no Daley Plaza.
So with no JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald would not be shot, and would continue to waste his life away as an obscure, confused Left-wing 'fellow traveller', with an obsession with guns, but in addition, he would never kill a cop, and never kill a president, and never get saddled with the most unbelievable conspiracy imaginable.

Marilyn Monroe

The death of bright young JFK, along with the loss of the eldest son, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. - a bomber pilot during the Second World War, practically destroyed the family, and in particular Joseph senior, and none of the surviving sons ran for office in the US government - so, no Kennedys - which was probably good news for Marilyn Monroe - who in this world didn't die in 1962, but rather lived on to be an alcoholic, drug taking old lady.

Joseph P Kennedy, very much his father's son, wrote to his father before the Second World War praising Hitler's sterilization policy as "a great thing" that "will do away with many of the disgusting specimens of men.", adding that "Hitler is building a spirit in his men that could be envied in any country."

Dwight D Eisenhower

After the Second World War, Dwight D Eisenhower, a graduate of Westpoint Military Academy, was elected president, and the USA of this world settled down to an era of relative peace, and considerable prosperity.

The key words throughout, however, were a 'comfortable conservatism', in which family values predominated.

Frank

And what about 'Frank' ?
We meet Frank in Chapter I of 'Club Jaguar'.
He's basically an 'enforcer', employed by the 'Boss' in order to maintain security at the various gambling establishments owned by the 'Boss'.
In this Everett world, Frank has little singing talent, though he does have ambitions - but then that is not unusual for young, good-looking guys, then and now.
But, like so many, Frank never gets the breaks but, as time passes he rises through the hierarchy of the organisation run by the 'Boss', until finally he runs up against the wrong guy, and ends up with a bullet in his head in an alleyway in LA.

Howard Robard Hughes Jr.

And what about this 'cute' little guy ?

Any guesses...... well of course - you can read the caption.

It's Howard Hughes, before he went 'weird', or perhaps he already was 'weird', and no one noticed.

Not a self made man, of the kind that Faunus admired, but a boy who inherited his wealth - which possibly was not a very good thing - at least for him.

However, in 'our America', Howard Hughes never gets the chance to get really 'weird', as he is killed on  July 7, 1946, while test flying the XF-11, which he crashes near Hughes airfield at Culver City, California.

One result of the death of Howard Hughes was the fact that there was no Howard Hughes to buy up the 'Desert Inn' hotel and casino in Las Vegas - which was subsequently bought by the 'Boss'.

Lincoln - Norman Rockwell

With regard to culture, in the 'America' of 'Club Jaguar', American art - such as it was, was largely uninfluenced by European 'expressionism' and other 'isms' of this period, as there were fewer immigrant artists.

Much of the abstract expressionism of the period in other Everett Americas was encouraged and financed by immigrant artists and wealthy dilettantes, who were either absent, or far less influential in the America of  'Club Jaguar'.

So....no Jackson Pollock alcoholic splatters !

The most 'popular' American artist in 'our America' was undoubtedly Norman Rockwell, not only because he espoused an easily understood realism, but also because he was unequivocally 'American'.

Indian Warfare - Frederic Sackrider Remington

Another undoubtedly 'American' artist who was popular in 'our America' was Frederic Sackrider Remington, who specialised in paintings, and often sculpture depicting what subsequently came to be termed the 'Wild West'. (and yes....Remington is related to the Remingtons who manufactured the famous guns).

'Nighthawks' - Edward Hopper

Remington, however, was not only important as an artist, but also as a detailed and accurate chronicler of Native American (Indian) culture, which was soon to disappear - and a culture that was of particular interest to the 'Boss', because of his studies at Harvard, and subsequent involvement in the study of Mayan culture. (see also Chapter III).

In a less 'Romantic' and more modern manner - the art of our America could be epitomised by Hopper's painting -'Nighthawks' - which summed up eloquently the nature of city life in the 'America' of 'Club Jaguar'.

In 'our America' figurative art continues to be popular but has now divided into two main traditions - a realistic form of impressionism, and what is often termed 'super-realism.

Front Seat Romance - Joseph Larusso

Deliverance - Teresa Elliott

Joseph Larusso is just one of many artists who follow the realistic impressionism tradition, producing works which have a 'contemporary' feel, often by representing figures in an obviously 'contemporary' setting.

Super-realism, however, relies on a near photographic depiction of subjects, although such depictions in many cases (wisely) have a 'timeless' feel.

Teresa Elliott is a startling example of the Super-realist school, producing many animal studies as well as other, more enigmatic works.

Music in 'our America' was very much influenced by the musical traditions of Europe.

For the 'boys', coming from a very alien musical culture, the music of America had very little meaning.

Metropolitan Opera House - New York

The American wealthy upper classes feigned interest in the ballets, operas and symphony concerts, but real American music had its origins in the folk-music of Europe.

Eventually, those European folk traditions went their own ways, and produced the huge variety of American folk music styles.

All attempts to produce a truly American music failed, doubtless because the real music of America was the music of the native Americans, slowly dwindling into obscurity on their reservations.

There were significant American composers, who at least managed to 'sound' American, in an odd sort of way.

John Philip Sousa

Howard Hanson

John Philip Sousa, of course, was famous for his marches - more suited to the football field that the parade ground.

Rather more 'high-brow' than Sousa was Howard Hanson - the pet composer of George Eastman, who created the  Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York.

Hanson studied in Europe (where else ?), and wrote a number of symphonies in a central European, 'late Romantic' style.

Similar to Hanson, but in no way as academically respectable was Ferde Grofé.

Ferde Grofé

Grofé's music, however, was real 'Americana', which is very odd, as he real name was Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé (yes, he was a 'von' - a German aristocrat), who studied music in  Leipzig, however, after working as a milkman, truck driver, usher, newsboy, elevator operator, helper in a book bindery, and iron factory worker, he ended up playing in a 'piano bar' for two dollars a night and as an accompanist.

His best known work was  the 'Grand Canyon Suite', but he also wrote a piano concerto and many more suites and other pieces.

George Jacob Gershwin

(Faunus got the boys to order the Disney version of the 'Grand Canyon Suite' in a desperate attempt to help them understand America ?)

Ferde, however, has another claim to fame, which is not quite so well known.

George Jacob Gershwin, was also trying to compose real American music, despite the fact that many would not have considered him to be a 'real' American.

What Gershwin wanted to do was create a 'synthesis' of jazz, and the symphonic music of Europe.

His first real attempt at this we now know as 'Rhapsody in Blue'. There was a problem, however.
George was good at writing tunes, but didn't have the first idea of how to orchestrate those tunes - and that's where Ferde (trained in Leipzig - remember) came in.

It was Ferde Grofé who orchestrated 'Rhapsody in Blue', which is why it sounds so good.

One of the problems with American folk-music in 'our America' is the fact that there are so many styles - and so we have 'bluegrass' (Appalachian music), 'country music', 'gospel', 'old time music',
'Appalachian folk', Cowboys songs, and 'blues' to name only some styles.
Much of this music fed into the new urbanised music of the cities, which was commercialised on record and al in films.

Bluegrass

It was from these forms that 'rhythm and blue', 'jazz' and 'rock and roll' emerged.
Our America was deeply 'conservative' in many ways, and the so called 'baby-boomers' were far more compliant than in the 'world' with which the reader is probably familiar, and so what we now know as 'pop-culture', was slow in developing.
Pop music was still relatively 'stayed' but there was a young guy in Mississippi who felt that he had a contribution to make - and Faunus - being an emissary of the entity that we know as 'Apollo', the god of the arts, and music, had a plan for our Mississippi boy, and was eventually to send the 'Boss' and Jim on a foray to Memphis - (not the one in Egypt) - to find this young man.
And the rest - as they say - will be History.......

to be continued......

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The Multiverse

Hugh Everett III (November 11, 1930 – July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who first proposed the 'Many World Theory' of quantum physics, which he termed his "relative state" formulation.

Born in 1930, Everett was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area.

Everett's parents separated when he was young.
Hugh lived in Washington until he was 8 years old, when his family moved to the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Maryland, then still a relatively small city.
Except for three years as a graduate student at Princeton University, he spent all of his life in and around Washington, DC. (Washington and its Virginia and Maryland suburbs have by now merged into a single urban complex, its parts linked by the Metro system.)

Initially raised by his mother (Katherine Lucille Everett née Kennedy), he was raised by his father (Hugh Everett Jr), and stepmother (Sarah Everett née Thrift) from the age of seven.

Everett won a half scholarship to St John's College, a private military high school in Washington DC. 

From there he moved to the nearby Catholic University of America to study chemical engineering as an undergraduate.

While there he read about 'Dianetics' (by Ron Hubbard) in 'Astounding Science Fiction'.

Although he never exhibited any interest in 'Scientology' (as 'Dianetics' became), he did retain a distrust of conventional medicine throughout his life.

During World War II his father was away fighting in Europe as a lieutenant colonel on the general staff.

After World War II, Everett's father was stationed in West Germany, and Hugh joined him, during 1949, taking a year out from his undergraduate studies.

Father and son were both keen photographers, and took hundreds of pictures of West Germany being rebuilt.

Reflecting their technical interests, the pictures were 'almost devoid of people'.

Everett graduated from The Catholic University of America in 1953 in chemical engineering, although he had completed sufficient courses for a mathematics degree as well.

Everett then received a National Science Foundation fellowship that allowed him to attend Princeton University for graduate studies.

Hugh Everett III 

He started his studies at Princeton in the Mathematics Department working on the then-new field of 'game theory' under Albert W. Tucker, but slowly drifted into physics.

In 1953 he started taking his first physics courses, notably Introductory Quantum Mechanics with Robert Dicke.

During 1954, he attended 'Methods of Mathematical Physics' with Eugene Wigner, although he remained active with mathematics, and presented a paper on military game theory in December.

He passed his general examinations in the spring of 1955, thereby gaining his Master's degree, and then started work on his dissertation that would (much) later make him famous.

He switched thesis adviser to John Archibald Wheeler some time in 1955, wrote a couple of short papers on quantum theory, and completed his long paper, 'Wave Mechanics Without Probability' in April 1956.

It was during this time that he met Nancy Gore, who typed up his 'Wave Mechanics Without Probability' paper.

Everett married Nancy Gore, the next year.

The long paper was later retitled as 'The Theory of the Universal Wave Function'.

Pentagon

Upon graduation in September 1956, Everett was invited to join the Pentagon's newly-forming Weapons Systems Evaluation Group (WSEG), managed by the Institute for Defense Analyses.

In October 1956 Everett received orientation on "special weapons" (presumably nuclear weapons, to judge by the handsome certificate that he received with a mushroom cloud drawn in the centre) by attending an Advanced Class at Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerqre, New Mexico.
There he acquired a familiarity with, and a life-long love for, computer modelling.
When he directed the department of physical and mathematical sciences of WSEG, beginning in 1957, he gained a reputation as an advocate of ever more powerful computers, which took up ever more space.

Missile Project

IDA had offices in Alexandria, in the so-called "Paperclip" building.
Until August 1957, Everett and his new wife lived in nearby Arlington, where the Pentagon is located.
For a little while in the spring of 1957 Everett had to tear himself away from problems of national security in order to complete his academic career.
In 1957, he became director of the WSEG's Department of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
After a brief intermission to defend his thesis on quantum theory at Princeton, Everett returned to WSEG and recommenced his research, much of which, but by no means all, remains classified.
He worked on various studies of the Minuteman missile project, which was then starting, as well as the influential study The Distribution and Effects of Fallout in Large Nuclear Weapon Campaigns.

'Mutually Assured Destruction' 

Around this time Everett wrote arguably the first ever serious report on just how devastating a nuclear war would be for the US.
It helped devise the concept of 'Mutually Assured Destruction' (MAD).
This is the concept appropriately summed up by its acronym - in that it would be insane to start a nuclear war -  but MAD might actually have just prevented the cold war from overheating.
'MAD' might have, in a major, way contributed to the extra caution that might explain why we’re still here, and that Everett’s work helped drive home the full horror of war, and this reduced the fraction of the multiverse that saw global nuclear war.

Max Tegmark, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has said that Everett’s work is as important as Einstein’s work on relativity.
The leading physicists of the Everett’s day, however, and in particular Niels Bohr, one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, couldn't accept his work.
They couldn't cope with the idea that every decision that we make creates new universes, one for all possible outcomes.
Subsequently, Everett had to publish a watered-down version of his idea.
Thoroughly disgruntled, he left physics.
In 1973 Everett left Lambda to establish DBS Corporation in Arlington, Virginia, a computer consulting company. Much of their work seems to have concerned statistical analysis.
He seems to have enjoyed programming, and spent the rest of his life working at DBS.
He also established Monowave Corporation with several DBS colleagues, and family friends.
Fifty years ago Hugh Everett devised the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, in which quantum effects spawn countless branches of the universe with different events occurring in each.

'Many World Theory'

The theory sounds like a bizarre hypothesis, but in fact Everett inferred it from the fundamental mathematics of quantum mechanics.

Nevertheless, most physicists of the time dismissed it, and he had to abridge his Ph.D. thesis on the topic to make it seem less controversial.

Hugh Everett III was a brilliant mathematician, and an iconoclastic quantum theorist who introduced a new conception of reality to physics.

To science-fiction aficionados, he remains a folk hero: the man who invented a quantum theory of multiple universes. 

At least that is how his history played out in your  universe.

Princeton University

If the 'Many World Theory' that Everett developed when he was a student at Princeton University in the mid-1950s is correct, his life took many other turns in an unfathomable number of branching universes.

Everett’s revolutionary analysis broke apart a theoretical logjam in interpreting the 'how' of quantum mechanics.

Although the 'Many World Theory' is by no means universally accepted even today, his methods in devising the theory presaged the concept of 'quantum de-coherence' - a modern explanation of why the probabilistic weirdness of quantum mechanics resolves itself into the concrete world of our experience.

Everett’s scientific journey began one night in 1954, he recounted two decades later.

He, and his Princeton classmate Charles Misner, and a visitor named Aage Petersen (then an assistant to Niels Bohr) were thinking up 'ridiculous things about the implications of quantum mechanics.' 

During this session Everett had the basic idea behind the 'Many World Theory', and in the weeks that followed he began developing it into a dissertation.

The core of the idea was to interpret what the equations of quantum mechanics represent in the real world by having the mathematics of the theory itself show the way instead of by appending interpretational hypotheses to the maths.
In this way, the young man challenged the physics establishment of the day to reconsider its foundational notion of what constitutes physical reality.

In pursuing this endeavour, Everett boldly tackled the notorious measurement problem in quantum mechanics, which had bedevilled physicists since the 1920s.

In a nutshell, the problem arises from a contradiction between how elementary particles (such as electrons and photons) interact at the 'microscopic', quantum level of reality, and what happens when the particles are measured from the 'macroscopic', classical level.

In the quantum world, an elementary particle, or a collection of such particles, can exist in a superposition of two or more possible states of being.

An electron, for example, can be in a 'superposition' of different locations, velocities and orientations of its spin.

Yet any time scientists measure one of these properties with precision, they see a definite result - just one of the elements of the superposition, not a combination of them.

Nor do we ever see 'macroscopic' objects in 'superpositions'.

The measurement problem boils down to this question: 'How and why does the unique world of our experience emerge from the multiplicities of alternatives available in the superposed quantum world ?'

The existence of multiple universes emerged as a consequence of his theory, not a predicate.

In a footnote in his thesis, Everett wrote: “From the viewpoint of the theory, all elements of a superposition (all ‘branches’) are ‘actual,’ none any more ‘real’ than the rest.”

Quantum physicists have used the 'Many World Theory' to reconcile an uncomfortable shortcoming of the 'Copenhagen Interpretation', namely the assertion that unobserved phenomenon can exist in dual states.

'Schrodingers Kitten' - Peter Crawford
reproduced with permission

So.... instead of saying that Schrödinger's cat (kitten) is both alive and dead, it could be said would that the kitten has simply 'branched' off into two different worlds: one in which it is alive and one in which it is dead.

Some 60 years after its introduction, the 'Many World Theory' remains a controversial subject. In a 2013 poll of quantum physicists, only a fifth said they subscribe to the 'Many World Theory' (as compared to the 42% who fall into the 'Copenhagen' camp).

That said, the list of thinkers who describe themselves as supporters of the 'Many World Theory' is an impressive one, and includes such eminent thinkers as quantum physicist David Deutsch, theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson, and physicist Sean Carroll.

The 'Many World Theory' necessarily leads to some very bizarre possibilities.
Again, all branching off points are possible so long as they are 'probable', and do not violate the laws of physics.

It's important to note, however, that given the number of possible worlds, it's vastly more likely that you'll find yourself in the most probable and seemingly rational of worlds, because they appear with the highest degrees of frequency (and by several orders of magnitude).

Throwing Dice - Chance

But there will be some worlds in which highly improbable things must happen.
For example, if a person were to flip a die (singular for dice) with a six 1,000 times, there has to be a world in which that person flips a six 1,000 times in a row.

One significant aspect of the 'Many World Theory' is the concept of 'quantum immortality', which asserts that a version of us must always be around to observe the universe.

One significant fact is that in the 'Many World Theory' there are no time travel paradoxes.

Put very simply - the presence of alternate worlds means there isn't a single time-line to screw up.

So...if a person were to go back in time, they would merely set off an entirely new web of time-lines. Subsequently, the 'Many World Theory' suggests that paradoxes - like going back in time to kill your grandfather - are nothing to worry about.

Not only that, everything that has already been done will happen again an infinite number of times (Eternal Recurrence ?).
So like Bill Murray in 'Groundhog Day', the current day will be experienced by yourself over and over and over and over...
At the age of 51, Everett, who believed in quantum immortality, died suddenly of a heart attack at home

'THE STORY OF GRACCHUS' & 'CLUB JAGUAR'

The 'Story of Gracchus', while inevitably, (according to Everett), being one of his 'may worlds', is probably close to the 'world' that most of the readers inhabit - and it should be noted that according to Everett's theory the overwhelming majority of 'worlds' are almost identical to one another, differing only in the most insignificant, and in many case, unnoticeable micro-details.

So the story of Gracchus takes place in a recognizable Roman Empire, with the Emperors Nero, Vespasian and Titus - the 'Year of the Four Emperors', and the earthquakes and the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.

The only aspect of that world that may in any way be unusual is the obvious reality of the ancient Greek and Roman Gods, and mythical beings, such as Faunus and Glaux.

In 'Club Jaguar', 'Las Vegas' is very similar to 'Las Vegas' as it is generally recognised, but there are various chronological anomalies relating to certain physical sites, fashions in clothes, popular music, auto-mobiles and architecture.

In addition the actual date of the events taking place seem somewhat fluid and ill-defined.

The appearance of Faunus and Glaux also indicates that the 'world of Club Jaguar', and that of the Story of Gracchus' are in some way (a quantum way ?) linked.

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