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= Unconfirmed information

Labyrinth (The). A remain of the PÂHRY INTER-CITY EXHIBIT of 750 AT (GC). One of the pavilions of EXPO '67 had the same name, but it was a maze of ideas rather than corridors. See also AMIENS.

Lake Nemo. Perfectly round, it is located in the exact geographical center of the CONTINENT (GC). Probably named in honour of Captain NEMO (EC). Although a connection with a little boy named NEMO McCay cannot be ruled out, as he too was a great explorer of strange countries (ACO).

Lætitia la Désaxée [Laetitia-of-the-Lost-Axis]. Stage name of Mary VON RATHEN, when she was part of the ROBERTSON CIRCUS (EP).

Language Wars. A series of wars that ravaged the CONTINENT long ago. The TOWER was built in the hope of putting an end to those conflicts (LT, GC).

Larsson. The attitude pilot on board the zeppelin dreamed up by FRIEDRICH (RA).

Le Cocq, Leinekügel. An engineer who suggested the load bearing structure used for the TORPILLARD (ETPV).

Le Perdriel, J. Distributor of COALTAR SAPONINÉ LE BEUF (EC).

Le Perdriel, Joseph. A resident of GRONINGEN, in Holland. Builder of an excellent trilingual INTERNET site about the Obscure Cities (INT).

Lebey, Edouard. Honorary President of the SOMONITES Exploitation Fund, in FRIEDRICH's story (RA).

Legrand. A shop in the Quartier des MAROLES of old BRÜSEL, probably demolished during the Reconstruction (B).

Leguebe, Wilbur. Producer of the movie Le DOSSIER B (LSLC). See LIDIAUX.

Lejardinier, C. An art critic who wrote a biting comment about the painting L'ENFANT DE PHŒBUS, by Augustin DESOMBRES.

Leloup, M. In the Obscure Cities, known as the author of a book titled Le plaisir des huîtres [The Pleasure of Oysters] (EC).

Leloup, Michel. Major assistant of Guy Dessicy, the first director of the CENTRE BELGE DE LA BANDE DESSINÉE (CBBD).

Lemonnier.   A boulevard of BRUSSELS/BRÜSEL (B).  In BRÜSEL, the demo building for the first renovation project was located there.  In our world, the boulevard as been named after Camille Lemonnier, a French-speaking Belgian writer born in Ixelles-Bruxelles (1844-1913 AD), author of naturalistic novels (Happe-chair, 1886 AD) (PLI).

Lencrier, James. An artist, resident of an outlying region of TAXANDRIA. Following in WAPPENDORF's footsteps, he has been experimenting for some times with inter-world communications through the NETWORK.

Lepage, Martinus. Author of Le Zéro et le Réseau [The Zero and the Network - there is a rime in the original title], published in GENOVA in 758 AT (GC).

Lessing, Albert. A name often encountered, both in the Obscure Universe and ours.   It is impossible to know how many distinct persons are involved.  [1] The Administrator of the VILLERS library. Probably a pseudonym given by Benoît PEETERS to the victim of an Obscure crime (BV). [2] Librarian of SAMAROBRIVE. He maintains having met Jules VERNE, which is quite possible (EC). [3] Author of an article on James WELLES, published in Le Soir of March 6, 1994 AD (GC).  [4]  The producer, and possibly the host, of the TV show Le TEMPS ET LES OEUVRES (DB).  See STREETS OF BRUSSELS.

Albert Lessing?

Leterrier, Georges. A Parisian model-maker who disappeared with the actress Dolorès Moore after having made a model of her country house. He somehow reached the Obscure World and was put in charge of the team that put together the vast model of the BRÜSEL project (B, GC).

Letort, Bruno.   A Belgian musician.  He has accomplished the tour de force of being able to interpret the partitions found in the papers of Augustin DESOMBRES, despite the fact that they had been judged impossible to play.  See AFFAIRE DESOMBRES.

Liber De Origine Morborum Invisibilum. [Book On The Origins of Invisible Diseases, in bad Latin.]  One of the books in the library of Elias Aureolus PALINGENIUS (LT).

Liber Meteurum. [Book of the Meteors, in Pig Latin.]   Another tome in the library of Elias Aureolus PALINGENIUS (LT).

Libraries. They are extremely important in the Obscure World, both as buildings and as collections of books. The is one of gigantic proportions located in the archipelago of CAYLUS and of mysterious origin. The survivors from the BATTISTA were washed inside (EC) and Isidore LOUIS perhaps gained access to it (A). The library of Elias Aureolus PALINGENIUS was equally famous, although of a more reasonable size (LT, GC). Between those extremes, we note the existence of the large books of the MAISON IMAGINAIRE collection, formerly displayed in the MUSÉE DES OMBRES. The Obscure City of VILLERS is built around its municipal library (GC). CERNOVADA showed a rare case of library converted into an orphanage (EC). In the suburbs of BRÜSEL, there is a CITY OF THE BOOK in the middle of which stands a library shaped like a book (EC), and a similar project for ALTA-PLANA received an award (GC). See BOOKS.

Library of Sciences.  See BIBLIOTHEQUE DES SCIENCES.

Libussa. An antique Obscure City. The village of BRENTANO was built to facilitate the visit of its ruins, which are not very impressive by the standards of our world (GC). See VON HUGENBERGER.

Ligam. The only male kept by the GAMMES for reproduction purposes. Gammes generally say "the" Ligam; in part because he is the only one of his kind, but also because they tend to view the bloated creature as a thing rather than a person (TC). The Ligam is maintained in a state of artificial youth thanks to the energy collected in the ZARANITES' hives. (Z).

Light. The intensity of light seems to play an important role in some forms of PASSAGE to the Obscure Cities. The lightning system in the A.DESOMBRES MUSEUM was controlled by a timer to avoid an overload that would have turned the frescoes into unwanted warps. The flashbulbs of Vigoleis KOELBER generated exactly the required wavelength (MAD). It was the light of the rising or setting sun that allowed access to MOUNT ANALOGUE in our world. In URBICANDE, daylight was subject to a strange refraction phenomena (FU). "Light Baths" are considered therapeutic in SODROVNO-VOLDACHIA (GC). The names of scientists from our world who have worked on light are known to the Obscure people, which would tend to indicate that some manipulations can open a PASSAGE. The HOLLOW EARTHS apparently all have a powerful source of light at their core (C, N, TC, Z). See BIO-LIGHT, FOUCAULT, LUMIÈRE, MICHELSON and TEMPLOUX.

Lighthouse of the World (original French term:  le Phare du Monde).   [1] A tower half a MEGAFATHOM high, central landmark of the Obscure EXPO (INT).  [2] A very similar project - not accepted - was submitted for the International Exhibition of Paris in 1937.  This building, if it had been constructed, would have been 770 meters (2,300 feet) high. Lina. A young "leaning" woman from the MARY LA PENCHÉE tale. Mistakenly called Lisa in the original text (MLP). Little Boutique of Mr. De Vrouw. See PETITE BOUTIQUE DE M. DE VROUW.

Le Phare du Monde

Livres de l'Ombre (Les) [The Books of Shadow]. Name of a series of conference by SCHUITEN and PEETERS. It is difficult to say whether the Obscure Cities are the cause or the effect (LSLC).

Lizbar. A neighbourhood of MYLOS, where the most dangerous wastes are walled in (A).

Locorail. A term used to designate some trains in XHYSTOS (A). See also K4S.

Lombe. Sub-division of TIME in the HOLLOW EARTHS. Apparently equivalent to a day (C, Z, N). See also CYCLE and PERIOD.

Loms, Jean. Professor at the Institute of High Chemical Studies of GORONA. Author of a very technical article about the NETWORK, published in MÉLANGE (FU2, MU). In April 719 AT, he was offering a generous reward for issues 66 and 69 of the periodical DEMAIN LA SCIENCE (EC). See NERED.

Lozan [Lôzan?]. An Obscure City we know very little about, except that it apparently has a link with the Swiss city of LAUSANNE (GC, ACO). See also TOUR DE LOZAN.

Luc S. Master Builder from the HOLLOW EARTHS. Designer of HABITREES (GC). See Luc SCHUITEN.

Lulls. Periods during which the NETWORK momentarily stopped expanding. There were at least three, of variable lengths (FU2, MU).

Lumière (La) [The Light]. The "First Entirely Photographical Periodical", directed by Michel ARDAN. The first issue came out just as L'ÉCHO DES CITÉS was folding, in 762 AT (EC). See CRÉMONT and PLISSART.

Luminas. An information journal about the Obscure World, published mostly for the benefit of the LIGHTED WORLD citizens, in order to fill the vacuum left by the disappearance of LUMIÈRE SUR LES CITÉS.   The information presented therein is varied, but perhaps not entirely reliable.  See TÉLÉPÉNOMBRATEUR.

Luna. An Obscure City in the western part of the CONTINENT, between NOVA and TIRUS (GC).

Lurisse. A GAMME who seems to have had reproduction problems. The other women in her community do not like to talk about it (TC, Z).

LWETITIW. Spelling of LAETITIA, after a run through WAPPENDORF's inter-world communication machine (INT). See NETWORK.

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