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December 8, 2024 at 9:51 pm
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A list of events for reference (WIP)
Date | Matteo | Lucien | Darius | Amei | Elara |
Nov 2024 | M: Working as a server in Paris; recognizes and cryptically addresses the group at the Sarah Bernhardt Café. | L: Sketching in Paris; begins orchestrating the reunion by sending letters to the group. | D: is back in Paris for the reunion | A: visits Paris for the reunion | E: visits Paris for the reunion from Churchill Guest House (Samphire Hoe), visits a guest house in Kent, back in England for a week weeks/months, all expense paid. Mrs Lovejoy the landlady. |
Spring 2024 | M: In Avignon, works at a vineyard. Finds a map. Crosses path with Lucien. Moves to next job in Paris. | L: Visits Avignon. Caught in debt to Monsieur Renard; creates labyrinthine sketches blending personal and mythical themes. Crosses path with Matteo. | D: by June 2024 sends a postcard to Amei, Is seen in Goa | A: Her daughter Tabitha is in Goa teaching | E: is retired in Tuscany, living with Florian, a distant relative met through family research. Summer 2024 (Olympics) has a strange dream at CERN learning about the death of her mother who’d actually died in her youth. She reminisces about chalkapocalypse. |
Feb 2024 | M:In London, works for a moving company. Crosses path with Amei and Tabitha. | L: Is implied he is caught back into the schemes of M. Renard to pay his debts. | D: | A: Moves from her London home to a smaller apartment in London; reflects on her estranged friends and past. Crosses path with Matteo. | E: |
Dec 2023 | M:In Avignon, considers moving to a job in London to support his mother’s care. | L: Going with the alias “Julien”, he is recognized in the streets, after 3 years of self-imposed exile, to escape M. Renard & Eloïse. | D: Resumes his travels on his own terms | A: Buys candles, reflects on leaving. | E: |
Nov 2023 | M: His mother requires more care, he goes to Avignon regularly where she is in care. Breaks up with Juliette end of summer. | L: | D: moves on from Guadeloupe, where he spent time rebuilding homes and reflecting. | A: | E: |
early 2023 | M: Visits Valencia and Xàtiva, hometown of the Borgias with Juliette; she makes him discover Darius’ videos. | L: | D: Lives in South of France, returns to Guadeloupe after hurricane Fiona. | A: | E: |
Dec 2022 | M: New year’s eve, Matteo discovers about Elara’s work on memory applicable to early stage Alzheimer with sensory soundwaves stimuli and ancestral genetic research. | L: | D: Runs a wellness channel. Goes back to Paris, breaks ties with M. Renard & Eloïse. Receives an invitation to see friends in South of France | A: Lives with Paul | E: |
early 2022 | M: Lives in Paris with Juliette, travels to many places together, week-ends getaways in London, Amsterdam, Rome… | L: | D: | A: | E: Early May, pandemic restrictions were largely over. Florian, her distant relative, moves in to Elara’s Tuscan farmhouse, where she is enjoying retirement. |
end of 2021 | M: | L: After the pandemic lockdown thinks of a way to escape. Goes by the alias “Julien” | D: Locked down in Budapest; sketches empty streets, sends postcards to Amei to maintain emotional connections. | A: | E: Dec. 2021, first Christmas in Tuscany Nov – end of Genealogix royalties from her successful patent, taken over by more efficient AI algorithms. She gives the idea to Darius of looking for 1-euro housing. |
beginning 2021 | M: | L: Third & last wave of lockdown measures in France | D: | A: | E: |
2020 | M: | L: | D: | A: | E: |
beg. 2020 | M: | L: Pandemic starts – first waves of lockdown | D: | A: | E: |
Nov 2019 | M: Last group meeting before the Nov 2024 reunion | L: Last group meeting before the Nov 2024 reunion | D: Last group meeting before the Nov 2024 reunion | A: Last group meeting before the Nov 2024 reunion | E: Last group meeting before the Nov 2024 reunion |
2019 | M: Plans for his mother / co-housing project | L: Spring break in Andalucia with Elara | D: Spring break in Andalucia with Elara | A: Spring break in Andalucia with Elara | E: Spring, before pandemic; visit in Andalucia to her father – joined by Lucien & Amei ; Darius tried to bring those people (M. Renard & Eloïse presumably) to see the hidden pyramid |
ca. 2014 | M: | L: | D: | A: | E: chalkapocalypse, before Elara’s retirement. She is employed in Warwick. Before that, lived from short term teaching contracts mostly, enabling her to travel. She learned Spanish when she moved with her father to Spain 30 years ago, working in an English school for expats, improved her French while working in Paris, moved to Warwick to be near her sister Vanessa thinking she would settle there. |
2010 | M: | L: | D: | A: | E: Genealogix became unexpectedly lucrative when it was picked up by a now-dominant genealogy platform around 2010. Every ancestry test sold earned her a modest but steady royalty, which for a time, gave her the freedom to pursue less practical research. |
2007 | M: | L: Meets Elara & Amei, Darius a concert of Eliane Radigue at Aarau, Switzerland | D: Meets Lucien, Elara & Amei a concert of Eliane Radigue at Aarau, Switzerland | A:Accepts Elara’s invitation to go to a concert of Eliane Radigue at Aarau, Switzerland, meets Lucien & Darius there. The group is formed | E:Goes to a concert of Eliane Radigue at Aarau, Switzerland with Amei, meets Lucien & Darius there. The group is formed |
before 2007 | M: | L: | D: | A:Meets Elara at a gallery in London, Southbank | E: Meets Amei at a gallery, London Southbank |