ATDTDA 715

[Michael Bailey]

715 3 "an attitude toward women that got more comfortable than
ambivalent" - Theign and Yzhitza found each other and
Theign was able to parlay the encounter
into a spy relationship with Yzhitza.

 I'm always impressed when reading of
spy networks, in how persuasive a spymaster must
be.  And Theign seems to have been very talented.

715 8 "Kundschaftstelle" - counterintelligence bureau,
which Colonel Redl had headed.
http://www.btinternet.com/~J.Pasteur/Army.html
mentions that by allowing Redl to kill himself,
his captors had forfeited the opportunity to
interrogate him for the details of his betrayals.

715 9 "rogue historians" fleeting mention here...
may mean something?

715 18 - Leo Slezak sang tenor, at the Vienna Opera
and later in New York with Toscanini conducting.
Also pursued a movie career and was famous for
humor and the ability to ad lib.  Last role was as the
portly Sultan in a production of "Munchhausen"

715 28 "Favoriten" - a district of Vienna
auf deutsch: http://www.wien-vienna.at/favoriten/index.htm

another "former city that's been annexed to the bigger
city" (like Mestre) and is now the 10th district (Bezirk)
of Vienna.
it has its own coat of arms, in the middle of which
is depicted  the "spinnerin am kreuz"
a tale of a woman in a tower spinning
(hmm, where have we run into that b4 <col49>)
http://www.virtualvienna.net/columns/billie/spinnerinamkreuz.html

the sense I get is, it's a different part of town for
Cyprian, who's changing...

715 30 "not so much seeking exotic flirtation
as to be absorbed somehow into a mobility, a bath
of language he did not speak, as he had once
sought in carnal submission an escape route
from what it seemed of the world he was being
asked to bear..."

"what it seemed of the world he was being
asked to bear" -
his place in his father's army, the tribulations
of what Vibe would refer to as "a climber" --

escaped from that into his uncle's world of
homoerotic discipline, but the intrigues of the world
still found their way to his door...

"bath" of language (harkening back to the baths we just left)
"escape route" - bringing to mind the R.U.S.H. plans of Theign
"mobility" - the original form of the word "mob", used in M&D as well