Atd : page 542---starts on page 524.Big Ass Spoiler

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Somebody, please tell me if I'm wrong.


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That is, because of all the interrupting material, noting this passage
---on page 542, that is to say, exactly in the middle of the novel and 
spelling something out in a most specific way---well, with all that
smoke and mirrors, it's so easy to get off track at this node in the Novel:

"     And what, furthermore, to make of this late rumor, drifting just 
below Woeve's ability to aquire the signal at all clearly---an 
undentifiable noise in the night that sends a sleeper awake with 
hearts pounding and and entrails hollow---intelligence of a 
Quaternionic Wepon, a means to unloose upon the world energies 
hitherto unimangined---hidden, de Decker would say "innocently," 
inside the w term. A mathmatical paper by the Englishman Edmund 
Whittaker which few here could make sense of was said to be 
pivotal. Woevre had noticed how the the convention-goers kept 
giving one another these looks. As if parties to a secret whose 
terrible force was somehow, conveniently, set to one side---as if to 
be encountered only in a companion world they did not quite know 
how to enter or, once there, to exit. Here in this sub-sea-level patch 
of strategic ground, hostage to European ambitions on all sides, 
waiting, held sleepless without remission, for the blows to descend. 
What better place for the keepers of the seals and codes to 
convene?"

What place?

"In the morning they put in at last to the Stupendica's home port, 
Trieste." (524)

"Praise be to Neptune, the Titanic sails at dawn. . . ."

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