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Notes for Mathematicians in Love, 10/16/2006 Rudy Rucker, Notes for Mathematicians in Love, 10/16/2006 Notes for my Sixteenth Novel, Mathematicians in Love by Rudy Rucker Copyright (C) Rudy Rucker 2006 Notes document created July 26, 2004. Book started October 27, 2004 102,100 words. Most recent update July 17, 2006 These notes have been lightly edited for the Web. Contents Goals ..................................................................................................................8 October, 2004, Version of Goals ...............................................................8 March 10, 2005, Version of Goals.............................................................9 Proposal Summary, March 15, 2005..................................................................9 The Characters ...........................................................................................9 The Story....................................................................................................9 Theme and Ideas ......................................................................................10 Design ..............................................................................................................10 Word Count..............................................................................................10 Voice and Tense.......................................................................................11 Sequencing...............................................................................................12 Number of Chapters.................................................................................13 Figure 1: Sierpinski Gasket Plot ..........................................................13 Title..........................................................................................................13 Always the Same Book? ..........................................................................15 Plot Picture...............................................................................................15 Plot Outline ......................................................................................................17 Calendar .......................................................................................................17 Final Plot Outline.........................................................................................19 Chapter One: Paul, Alma and Me............................................................20 (1.1) Bela and Paul...............................................................................20 (1.2) Alma and the Fight With Haut. ...................................................20 (1.3) Surfing with Alma.......................................................................20 (1.4) Dinner with Paul. Bela and Alma Make Love. ...........................20 (1.5) The Big Theorem. .......................................................................21 Chapter Two: Cone Shell Aliens .............................................................21 (2.1) Paul On Meth, Goin’ To Stanford! .............................................21 (2.2) Haut In The Nut Ward.................................................................21 (2.3) Commencement Day. Alma Goes With Paul..............................21 (2.4) Bela Sees The Cockroach Aliens. Pete. .....................................22 (2.5) Bela Gets a Vlog, The Washer Drop Incident............................22 (2.6) The Day After..............................................................................23 p. 1 Rudy Rucker, Notes for Mathematicians in Love, 10/16/2006 Chapter Three: Rocking with Washer Drop ............................................23 (3.1) Bela Goes to Jail With the Skaters..............................................23 (3.2) Out of Jail; Paid by Leni; Bela Meets Leroy...............................23 (3.3) The Chairman Won’t Help. Washer Drop. Cammy Vendt. .......23 (3.4) San Jose Washer Drop Concert...................................................24 (3.5) Cammy Seduces Paul..................................................................24 Chapter Four: Hypertunnel at the Tang Fat Hotel ...................................25 (4.1) Cammy’s Murder. .......................................................................25 (4.2) Fighting with Alma .....................................................................25 (4.3) Cammy’s parents, Jutta Schreck .................................................25 (4.4) Bela Hides Paul at Tang Fat........................................................26 (4.5) Gyula and Owen. Rehearsing with Jutta....................................26 (4.6) Memorial Concert for Cammy. ...................................................27 (4.7) Bela and Paul Test Haut’s Paradox at Tang Fat..........................27 Chapter Five: Mathematicians From Galaxy Z .......................................28 (5.1) Three-Way Sex in Cruz...............................................................28 (5.2) The Cone Shell Attacks Gary Ziff ..............................................29 (5.3) Hyperspace Surfari at Pfeiffer Beach.........................................29 (5.4) The Alien Ex-Pats of La Hampa. ................................................30 (5.5) Jellyfish Lake ..............................................................................31 Chapter Six: The Gobubbles....................................................................31 (6.1) Nataraja jellyfish. ........................................................................31 (6.2) Kill Haut. Jump To Earth. Alma Killed ......................................32 (6.3) The Hundred-Percent Campaign, the Gobubbles........................33 (6.4) Cammy Cheats, Pete On Board, Sandoval With Ramirez. ........34 (6.5) Paul Clones the Gobubbles ........................................................35 (6.6) The Stadium Concert..................................................................36 Chapter Seven: The Best of All Possible Worlds ....................................36 (7.1) The Gobubbles Take Hold. .........................................................36 (7.2) Paul and Veeter Are Murdered. Bela Unmasks Ramirez.........38 (7.3) With Alma in Paradisio...............................................................38 (7.4) Blending With Bela-3 and Alma-3..............................................39 Some Earlier Chapter Outlines ....................................................................40 September, 2004, Short Chapter Outline .................................................40 October 28, 2004, Long Chapter Outline ................................................41 January 23, 2005, Short Chapter Outline.................................................45 May 13, 2005, Long Outline of Chaps 6-8 ..............................................48 Old Chapter Six: What If Everything Were Predictable?....................48 Old Chapter Seven: War Against the Vandals.....................................51 Old Chapter Eight: My True Love.......................................................52 Characters ........................................................................................................52 Two Guys and a Girl................................................................................52 Bela Kis....................................................................................................53 Bela’s Family Tree...................................................................................53 Paul Bridge ..............................................................................................54 Alma Ziff .................................................................................................54 Leni Pex ...................................................................................................55 Cammy Vendt ..........................................................................................55 Jutta Schreck............................................................................................55 p. 2 Rudy Rucker, Notes for Mathematicians in Love, 10/16/2006 Van Veeter ...............................................................................................55 Roland Haut .............................................................................................55 Social Ideas ......................................................................................................55 Vlogging ......................................................................................................55 Reality Show............................................................................................55 Vlog..........................................................................................................56 Hosting Costs...........................................................................................57 Rumpelstiltskin ........................................................................................57 Gödel’s Constitutional Insight.................................................................58 California Lotteries..................................................................................59 Consciousness..............................................................................................59 The Sixties Redux....................................................................................59 Consciousness Transformation ................................................................60 A New Drug.............................................................................................60
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