"Hollis dreamed she was in London with Philip Rausch, walking fast down Monmouth Street, towards the needle of Seven Dials"
"She watched Alberto trying to explain the helmet and the laptop to Virgin Security."
Chapter summaries (may contain plot and character teaser / "spoiler" information):
Chapter 7. BUENOS AIRES
Rausch wakes Hollis (again) with news of a new lead: Bobby Chombo, the "kind of tech-assist (for) these locative artists" who may have special information re: "patterns of global shipping... or iPods... as a means of data transfer."Hollis contacts her former Curfew bandmate Reg Inchmale re: potential information on Node and learns of its link to "advertising magnate" and Blue Ant owner Hubertus Bigend. [405 characters]
Chapter 8. CREEPING HER OUT
After viewing a virtual monument to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s nonfatal heart attack on Sunset, Hollis watches former Curfew drummer Laura "Heed" Hyde pass by in a smallish SUV. Hollis uses her own Curfew legacy to convince him to introduce her to reclusive Bobby Chombo.Alberto describes his artistic process for creating digital models that are unrealized without Bobby’s technical genius for facilitating the locative art projects (wiring routers, mapping GPS grids, etc.). Hollis learns that Bobby refuses to sleep on the same grid point twice.