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

[Monte Davis]

> "Real life" has a very different role in AtD from GR, a role 
> which maybe I'll figure out more on 2nd or 3rd reading...

NB this from p. 36:

"The Chums of Chance could have been granted no more appropriate form of
'ground-leave' than the Chicago Fair, as the great national celebration
possessed the exact degree of fictitiousness to permit the boys access and
agency."

The most straightforward inference from this is that the CofC do *not* have
access to and   *cannot* act upon that which is 100% factual. From there,
the roads diverge: 

Are "100% factual" and "real life" synonymous?

Are the other airship crews on the same footing vis a vis access and agency?
Will heavier-than-air craft be different? (Renzo & Kit's dive-bomber sure
seems to be fully interactive... a-and to promise So Much More!)

What other characters or organizations share this problematic relationship
with the non-ficititious? The Trespassers? Novelists? Listserv subscribers?