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Tabellion. [Old French word, from the Latin tabellio]. A civil servant who used to fulfil more or less the functions of a notary in secondary jurisdictions (PLI). In The TOWER, one of them had his office next to the RECOVERER's (LT). See also STREETS OF BRUSSELS.
Taxandria. A country that used to share the Obscure World with the CONTINENT, but got separated following a scientific experiment. Long ruled by a line of two-headed Princes who enforced the dogma of Eternal Present until the coming of AIMÉ. Machines, which were held responsible for the GREAT CATACLYSM, were forbidden; as well as, for nebulous reasons, representative art. It seems that a form of English was the official language. See Irina and Thadeus BRENTANO, "F", FILIPUS, FIXORAMA, MARINUM, PALACE OF THE PRINCES, PRESENT, Raoul SERVAIS and TIME (SEP).
Télépénombrateur. A made-up word, practically
untranslatable. It describes a device that allows the magazine LUMINAS to broadcast in the LIGHTED WORLD. It may have commun points with the TROMBINOSCOPE (L).
Tempel, Sophie. See SOPHIE.
Temple of Augustines. An historical building of BRÜSEL. Freddy DE VROUW wanted to "facadise" it, while the deputy-mayor SPEECKAERT was trying to save it (B).
Temple of Hermepolis. A building on the main island of the CAYLUS Archipelago. Only its upper part remained above the water after a giant tsunami (EC). See The BATTISTA.
Temple of Urbis. A structure in the city of the same name. In it is religiously kept a fragment from ROBICK's private notes about the NETWORK (MU). See URBIS.
Temple of Kepler. A religious center built in GORONA by the ZELATORS sect (GC).
Temple of Servadac. A large Obscure whorship place. Located in SAMAROBRIVE, it offers numerous similarities with the cathedral of AMIENS. One day, a cloud mysteriously appeared under its roof (A2).
Temple of Valentini. Located on top of the Second Hill of ALAXIS. It is one of the oldest known buildings in the Obscure World (GC).
Temploux. A small village, west of NAMUR, in Belgium. A correspondent named Hubert Sauvage has discovered there a strange LIGHT phenomena that may be a PASSAGE (INT).
Temps et les Oeuvres (Le). [Time and Works] A little-known litterary television series, produced by Albert LESSING and broadcasted on the belgian network in the '60s AD. We have only a single segment on record, in which Pierre LIDIAUX is interviewed. As the final credits are missing, we do not know for sure if the host is Lessing himself (DB).
Terrie. A young housemaid in the townhouse of Paul CAUCHIE in MYLOS. She accompanied SAM at the start of his journey, but abandoned the trip before reaching the SUPREME GENERATOR (A).
Testament
of Mary.
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| Texier (Dr.). A doctor in
MYLOS, who tried - without success - to cure MARY VON RATHEN for her "leanism" (EP). Tharcissius. A member of the ROBERTSON CIRCUS. He looks like a beast-man, but Robertson introduced him as the troop's business man (EP). Tharo. An Obscure City mentioned in the letter written on June 18, 735 AT, to the COMMISSION OF HIGH INSTANCES of URBICANDE by ROBICK. The URBATECT admits having been seduced in his youth by its voluptuous architecture (FU). |
Doctor Texier. |
Theater of Women. A place mentionned in La CITÉ DES OMBRES. The latter being a work of fiction, we are left to wonder about the actual existence of this theater (CO).
| Théâtre des images. [Theater of Images] The central portion of the BANDE DESSINÉE Festival of ANGOULÊME in 2003. A remarkable scenography designed by SCHUITEN and PEETERS. |
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born in Edmunston, New-Brunswick, in 1934 AD. Definitely a PASSEUR,
he has done several paintings that shows that the city of QUEBEC
is a point of PASSAGE. Théo. See Olivier TISSOT. |
Theosophes. A sect in the Obscure World (EC). See also NEO-THEOSOPHES.
Tilleuls. See ALLÉE DES TILLEULS.
Time [1]. In French, the word temps means both "time" and "weather". In the Obscure world, those two notions are also strongly intermingled, and both can be controlled from ARMILIA. The measure of time is a prestigious office on the CONTINENT, but was long forbidden in TAXANDRIA (see AILÉE). It seems that time flows in the Obscure World more slowly than in ours, but this is apparently not an absolute rule (RA, GC). The HOLLOW EARTHS have their own system of time-keeping. See also Des MYSTÈRES DU CALENDRIER, REVERSO-CHRONOCYCLI, SPITFIRE and WATCHES.
A very lively debate has been held on the BD Paradisio INTERNET forum regarging the temporal relationship between the two worlds. There is also a document that apparently lifts at least partly the veil covering the subject but, like many of the things connected with the Cities, it has not been authenticated. |
Time [2]. Name of a magazine widely distributed in our world. The November 1st, 1993 AD issue clearly indicates that there are contacts between the Obscure universe and North America. This image is identical to the one used on a poster promoting BIBLIOTHERAPY on the CONTINENT (GC).
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Time. (original French: porte du temps). Located in the
middle of the Desert of SOMONITES, the ruins of this
strange structure were discovered by an expedition led by a certain Rexolle DE BAETS. This finding has struck popular imagination and
has given birth to many legends. The poetess Léonor ACEVEDO
spoke of it in a most elegant fashion (A2). Tirus. An Obscure City in the western part of the CONTINENT, between Luna and Cavi (GC). Title of Passage. Document given to people who have contributed to the discovery of a point of PASSAGE. Printed on high grade paper and illustrated with colour reproductions of Obscure art. The one showing the ARTS ET MÉTIERS subway station has been signed by several famous persons. |
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| Tissot, Olivier. A.K.A. Théo. Recherchist born in Toulouse, France, and living in London, England. He has discovered several interesting details for this dictionary. A skilled chemical engineer by trade, he can probably understand the NETWORK theories concocted by Professor LOMS. One of the participants to the First OBSCURE CONVENTION (OT). See also BULLETIN and TOSSIT. |
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| Tivoli. A vast playground in KØBENHAVN. Opened only four months out of the year because of the cold climate of the area (RA). There is a similar place, on a less grandiose scale, in Copenhagen, named after an ancient pleasure garden of Rome. It is one of the oldest sites of its type in our world, and its monumental entrance is quite famous. See COSMOPOLIS and STREETS OF BRUSSELS. |
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Tlön. [1] A city located somewhere in the north-west of the CONTINENT. Klaus VON RATHEN went through it when he was looking for MARY. [2] A distant planet in the Obscure Universe, maybe one of the HOLLOW EARTHS. A replica of the GATE OF UQBAR of MYLOS stands on that world (GC).
Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius. A novel published in 1940, written by Jorges Luis BORGES. It describes the creation, by a group of scientists, of an imaginary planet. They include such a wealth of details that it becomes impossible to distinguish it from reality.
Toklas, Hadrien. An elderly man living on the 22nd level of a dome-building in GALATOGRAD, two levels below the main skylight, about which he is obsessed (EC).
Tonero, Tina. An anarchist from BRÜSEL. She became Constant ABEELS' lover, and moved with him to CALVANI. She has since quieted down a bit (B, GC).
Torpillard. An ultra-fast mode of transportation between Obscure Cities, in which passengers travel lying down (ETPV, GC). See LE COCQ and WAPPENDORF.
Torre Palace. An hotel in BRASILIA, where ROBICK stayed during his passage in that city (AS #239).
Tossit (Pr.).
TOUR (La). [The TOWER] Fourth volume of the CHRONICLES. Started in (A Suivre) in January 1986 AD, and published in album form by Casterman in 1987. |
Tour de Lozan [Tower of Lozan]. A fine white wine of the Obscure World (GC). See LOZAN.
Tour du Soleil [Tower of the
Sun]. A building of MARIEVILLE linked to the SUN LIFE BUILDING.
Tour: histoire véridique de l'homme qui la traversa (La) [The Tower: the True Story of the Man Who Went Through it]. Memoirs of Giovanni BATTISTA, relating his journey and the end of The TOWER. The book is required reading for all schoolchildren on the CONTINENT (GC).
Tournachon, Félix. See NADAR.
Toussain (Mrs). Resident of the VILLAGE OF MYSTS, caught by surprise in an unseasonably fog hardening. A middle age lady, she remembers the famous Hardening of '013 (C).
TOWER (The). See La TOUR.
Tower (The). An immense building, the size of a city. Its construction was started to put an end to the LANGUAGE WARS that were ravaging the CONTINENT. The beginning of the work was taken as the start of a major Obscure calendar; but it was never truly finished and thumbed down around 450 AT - unless it flipped into another universe. The intended goal of its builders was to try to gain access to another spiritual plane through a structure that would have become lighter and more refined as it rose. This concept was perhaps inspired by a description of the MOUNT ANALOGUE. The Tower is generally considered mythical by modern Obscure people, but its cultural influence remains great. (LT, GC). See AT, BATTISTA, BRUEGEL, CLAUDIUS, CROWN, EXPO 2000, MILENA, PALINGENIUS, POSTAL SERVICE, QUADRA NOVA, RECOVERER, TABELLION and VALENTIN.
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Montreal. Finished in 1943 AD, this ART DECO structure,
built on MOUNT ROYAL, has hardly ever been used, for it is
constantly shaken by strange vibrations. It is most probably a point of PASSAGE, but it may lead only to the ruins of URBICANDE (MHA3).
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Trahmer. A city bordering the JUNGLE OF POZNAH. It has a most ancient appearance, and seems to have escaped the reconstruction craze that swept the CONTINENT in the 7th Century of the Tower Era. The rare images available show massive stone buildings crowned with squat ornate domes (MS). Franz BAUER briefly went through in 696 AT (MS). L'ÉCHO DES CITÉS had its first offices in that town (EC). Harry RHODES and Cynthia SIRK eventually made their home in Thramer when they became marooned in the Obscure World (EC). See also RYAD.
Tramelan. A rare type of Obscure WATCH (GC).
Tramway 81. For mysterious reasons, there seems to be Number 81 tramway line in all the places having an important connection with the Obscure Cities (GC). In BRÜSEL, Line 81 is the most twisted of the few remaining tramway routes (QG). See also TURIN.
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summary of the events that transpired during the First OBSCURE
CONVENTION, between July 28 and August 1st, 1999. Trégomain, Gildas. Administrator delegate for the Chamber of Commerce of ALAXIS on board the SUPER-VEHICLE (RA). Trente ans de bistouri [Thirty Years with a Scalpel]. Autobiography of Dr. Polydore VINCENT. Over 100,000 copies were sold, at least according to its own advertising (B, GC). |
Triolet. One of the many vehicle of Axel WAPPENDORF (ETPV, GC).
Triton. One of the planets of the Obscure system (ETPV). It may be only a coincidence, but a satellite of Neptune bears the same name in our own Solar System. The orbit of this moon is not only retrograde, but also remarkably excentric. Morever, the CONTINENT is surrounded on all sides by the NEPTUNIC Ocean... See ASTRONOMY.
Trombinoscope. A device invented by
Professor TOSSIT. The name is based on trombine,
a French slang word to describe a person's face; the closest English equivalent would be
"mug". The only known model is used by LUMIÈRE SUR LES CITÉS to
display the portraits of its citizen members (LSLC).
The details of its inner works are very mysterious, but seem to involve an infra-grey
diffractor equiped with a platinum-coated triode, as well as a suprasulfurated poly-EPROM
(INT). See also TÉLÉPÉNOMBRATEUR.
| Tucholsky, Hubertus. The main character of the FIXORAMA show La CITÉ DES OMBRES (INT). Turin [Torino]. A city in northern Italy, where the points of PASSAGE are located on board the TRAMWAYS. Incredibly enough, BOOKS are kept handy for the convenience of passengers (LP)! |
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Tyre-rail. An Obscure mode of transportation. One can sleep comfortably while letting the vehicle coast (ETPV, GC). See MICHELINE.
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