TFv01 CH 28 , dead (annotated)

Annotations for , dead, the twenty-eight chapter of One Rainy Day In May.

## Page 709

**Urban Tails**

Urban Tails? But before it was Urban Pet! Call Narcon9, I think Anwar is glitching

## Page 711

**formulae**

the same word used Cas for the intercepted signal

**stored boxes of forgotten content**

lots of boxes in this book

## Page 712

**Nona T-Drive**

Nona refers to character from Greek myth. One of the Parcae, the three personifications of destiny in Roman mythology (the Moirai in Greek mythology and in Germanic mythology, the Norns), and the Roman goddess of pregnancy. The Roman equivalent of the Greek Clotho, she spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle. Nona, whose name means "ninth", was called upon by pregnant women in their ninth month when the child was due to be born.

Birdie Badinage on the facebook reading group suggested another explanation: "it is an anagram, I think it's ad inventor, which is latin for 'the creator' or 'the author'."

**arabic**

infidel

## Page 713

**The Nose**

"The Nose" opera by Shostakovich.

**Myla**

Myla Mint, we'll meet her later

**SourceForge**

a web-based service to offer source code repository, downloads mirrors, bug tracker and other features

**Synthia**

the first species.... to have its parents be a computer. Mycoplasma laboratorium - a planned partially synthetic species of bacterium, nicknamed Synthia;

## Page 720

**dissolutions inherent in comparative reasoning**

i.e. when
comparing two things, we find out that the differences are dissoluting,
vanishing?

## Page 721

**Z & S**

Anwar told Xanther about this problem? see pg. 394

**overfitting**

 occurs when a statistical model describes random error or noise
instead of the underlying relationship. Overfitting generally occurs
when a model is excessively complex, such as having too many parameters
relative to the number of observations. A model that has been overfit
will generally have poor predictive performance, as it can exaggerate
minor fluctuations in the data (Wikipedia)

## Page 722

**AIM**

anticipatory inter(fear)ance model – for Narcon's, it is Affect-Intersectional Motivations (565)

## Page 724

**Z observes S**

Z is a reader, predicting where is the author
leading him, and Z is also the author, predicting where is the reader
heading (i.e. what is the reader thinking, what he postulates about the
book)

## Page 734

**Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure**

the pyramids of Giza, named after the pharaohs

**Abu al-Houl**

Sphinx

## Page 769

**Varese**
 was a French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career
in the United States. Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm and he
 coined the term "organized sound" in reference to his own musical
aesthetic. Varèse's conception of music reflected his vision of "sound
as living matter" and of "musical space as open rather than bounded". He
 conceived the elements of his music in terms of "sound-masses",
likening their organization to the natural phenomenon of crystalization.
 Varèse thought that "to stubbornly conditioned ears, anything new in
music has always been called noise", and he posed the question, "what is
 music but organized noises?" (Wikipedia)

## Reader's Guide Questions:

**10. The Orb emanates green light (p. 155) when Cas is in the final stages of decrypting it, Shnorhk argues in court (p. 228) that he “had green,” Anwar notices green light (p. 770) in Xanther’s room when he sees the cat in her bed, and “green” appears in various languages in the book. Is this a significant link? Why or why not? Where else in the volume does color cross temporal or geographical boundaries?**