ch 61 to end of the first fifteen lives of Harry

ch 61: Harry is trying to find the chronus club without any luck. So he lives a really roaming mans life. Never anywhere more than 2 weeks, always changing his look, etc. He doesn't want anyone to recongize him cause anyone could be a bad guy. The only evidence he finds of the chronus club at all is a stone somebody engraved and burried at the foot of their grave. It basically says so many oraborans have been mind wiped or truly killed that it's obvious other oraborans must be behind it. Trust no one.
ch 62: Harry is a piece of shit, he poisoned a dog.
ch 63: Harry finds a chronus club in bayjing. They tell him stuff.
Ch 64 this is about a time when there was an oraboran
named akinleye who had forgotten her previously lives.
Harry went to her in her second known life when she was freaking out and explained the deal to her in the hospital she was shackles to her bed. He had the hospital destroyed and built a better one with better doctors on the spot.
Ch 65 it's virgina that has been killing oraborans for Vincent. Harry pumps her full of chemicals and electrocution and she forgets.
Ch 66 Harry is going to Cambridge to study history. His biological grandmother doesn't like it.
Ch 67 in this life technology appears to have accelerated quite a bit. Jet engines and kidney transplants happening before their time.
Ch 68 Harry's at some party and he sees Vincent. He's calling himself Simon
ch 69 Charity hazelmere is another oroboran. Harry runs into her at the library of congress. She chastizes him for becoming a journalist and using his own name. It's dangerous to draw attention to yourself likethat. There's a war on. But I guess Harry has a plan and he tells it to Charity.
ch 70 The trick with vincent is that he think s Harry doesn't remember anything. But Harry does remember. But Harry can't let vincent know he remembers or vincent will see harry as a threat and that would be bad. Harry's having a heck of a time with this.
ch 71 Vincent calls harry and hires him to investigate companies he is thinking of investing in. It's all a ruse to get Harry in his pocket. This goes on for decades. Then Vincent invites Harry to his mantion in Maine for the weekend. Turns out it's an engagement party. The bride to be is Jenny from Harrys fourth life. Harry's having a hard time keeping his composure. He slips away outside so he can have a good cry.
ch 72 Vincent is doing this as a kind of torture. At least that's what Harry thinks.
ch 73 Having seen Vicent Mary Jenny Harry is feeling nostalgic so he goes to visit his old home. The shack his father lived in is all overgrown with ivy. He is grateful that Arthur never once told him the truth of his birth.
ch 74 twoard the end ofhis natural life, Harry tells Vincent about his remembering of his previous life. Vincent tells him they've been friends for centuries and shows him a special electric hat that will help him remember. Harry sees it and immediately knows it's a device to try to make Harry forget. But Harry plays along with it.
ch 75 Harry gets zapped by the thing
ch 76 Vincent's foregettener diedn't work. It just killed Harry and he was reborn as usual and charity showed up when he was 6 to do the chronus club's work. Harry is trying to keep a low profile so he goes through early life as a b+ student. One day a very young Vincent shows up saying his father sent him and he gives him a notebook.
ch 77 Harry goes to war and Vincent is there.
ch 78 Vincent gives Harry letters with advanced scientific knowledge to send to folks all around the world. Harry goes to charity for advice. she's oftwo minds The first is don't mail the letters because of the damage he knows it will do to the world and they immediate capture and torture Vincent. The second is to mial the letters cause getting the info on Vincent is more important than what happens to humanityin this life.
ch 79 Vincent taqkes Harry to Swizerland where he's almost done with the quantum mirror
ch 80 Back to harry's third life when he's looking for relibious answers to his oraborean sitution. He's hanging out with a lady in India who's a big scammer and he loses faith.
ch 81 Vincent fires up the quantum mirror. Turns out Harry has been quietly sabotashing the quantum mirror for years. He changes a number here, a decimal point there and it's all dangrously horribly wrong. They shut it down but it's too late. The meltdown is happening. Harry saves Vincent's life and takes the worst of the explosion and radiation. On his deathbed Harry tells Vincent of his childhood and Vincent tells him of his. Harry now has the info he needs to ensure Vincent will not be born in the next life.

First 15 lives of Harry August ch 35 through 60

 Ch 35 Harry is in Russia.  The Chronos club is a bit diminished there.  When you're a time traveller that knows the communist revolution and World War 2 are coming, you get the hell out.  But there's a contact there that's hard core Russian and is going to stick around in her home country even if it's a horrible nightmare.  She tells Harry to go to a professor and blackmail him.

ch 36: Harry's attempt at blackmail was a mixed success.  The guy he's blackmailing says to come over to his office.  But there's something off in his voice and Harry's pretty sure he's getting set up.  So he says he's too far away from that office and to meet him at a subway station.  When he gets to the subway he sees people he thinks are government stooges.  So he causes a distraction and is able to get a couple seconds with the blackmailee who tells him where he thinks the bad guy is.  So Harry ditches his old ID and he's now got an ID saying he's a guy from finland.

ch 37-42:  Harry somehow gets it in his head that Vitali Karpenko is the source of the trouble.  Then he gets the idea that Vitali is at Pietrok - 112.  I think he shoots a guy.  There's train travel and a story about a time he died of drugs and picked oranges in Isreal and other such shenhannegans.  He makes it to Pietrok 0 112 and impersonates a Russian Captain and BS's his way to the commander at Pietrok-112 and tell shim to call Vitali Karpenko.

ch 43: Harry and the Commander have a fun conversation and Vitali shows up.  Seems like it's someone Harry knows as they say "fancy seeing you here."

ch 44: Guessing Vitali is Vincent Rankis as this chapter is a flashback to a time when he and Vincent went on a boat ride with a couple undergrads.

ch 45: It is Vincent.  He tells everyone else to leave the room and he and Harry have a chat.

ch 46: Harry goes to visit his biological father as he's dying.  He's a horrible man.

ch 47:Vincent shows Harry the big scary thing hes building.  He says it's a quantum mirror.

ch 48:Vincent and Harry eat chicken and debate the claptrapness of a quantum mirror.

ch 49:Harry spends some time in a jail cell and decides he'll help Vincent.

ch 50: Harry once met a guy named Fidel in Afghanastan who goes life after life fighting in wars.  In the lives where he doesn't die in war he ends up dying of lung cancer at the age of 77.  His most interesting death is being killed by a kid with a piece of banboo in the vietnam war.

ch 51: Harry tells Vincent about the message saying the world is ending and he thinks it might be because of what they're doing.  Vincent is dismissive of this.  Harry needs a vacation, so he goes to Leningrad.  He goes to where the chronus club used to be and there's just a WW2 memorial there now.

ch 52: Harry confronts Vincent about the Chronus club and Vincent admits that he destroyed their office in Leningrad.  There's a lot of back and forth about the long term affects of what they're doing here.  Harry decides he must make his escape

ch 53:Once when he was buisnesmanning in argentina he was kidnapped by people that demanded a 300k randsom from his company.  The comapny would have happily paid it, but Harry didn't feel like waiting around.  So he killed one of the guards and stole his gun and shot a bunch of other guards.  The kidnappers decide to cut and run.

ch 54: Harry decides to make his escape on foot through the Russian Wilderness.  But first he needs a gun so he can kill himself if need be.  He makes his way to the armory, knocks out he guard there, but doesn't find any keys.  He picks the lock to find that Vincent is already inside waiting for him.

ch 55: Harry wakes up in a padded room strapped to a chair.  They chitchat about their options.  Vincent says he needs Harry to tell him when and where he was born.  He says he would never forever kill him, but he needs this information so that he could so that Harry won't tell the world Vincent's plans.  Harry's first thought is that Vincent must have help from at least one other older multi-lifer.  Harry's pretty dedicated to not telling him.

ch 56: Harry is being tortured.  He convinces a seargent to give him poison.  After two and a half days Harry is now dying.  Vincent then has his brain shocked super bad in the hopes it makes him forget this life so Harry will not interfere in the next.

ch 57: Harry talks about a time he was involved in a forgettening.  The goal is to forget your past lives so you can have a fresh start.  This is accomplished with a combination of chemicals and electric shock.  The goal is to have the person with total amnesia right before they die.  The earliest one of these Harry is aware of is in 1870.

ch 58: The forgettening doesn't work.  Harry knows who he is.  He's suddenly trying to come up with different ideas as to what he could do to fake amnesia.  ln the end none of his ideas really matter because his body is not really able to function anymore and in the end Vincent tells a guard to shoot him.

ch 59: Harry is reborn and at the age of 6 tries to contact the chronus club and finds he is unable to do so.  This is very disconcerting.  Vincent must have a vast group of other life loopers that are part of his conspiracy to have accomplished this.

ch 60: Harry slinks back home with his tail between his legs.  He plays the good boy unitl 15, when he makes his way to London to do some more investigating.  He only finds evidence of a few chronus clubs around the world.  The one in London shutdown in 1909.  This makes Harry feel not too bad cause this means whoever Vincent is working with has only been able to do enough damage to undo one generation's worth of work.  He's gonna go to Vienna.

The first fifteen lives of harry august up to Chapter 34

 ch 1: Harry dies and then comes back to life.  Turns out he's not the only one.  when he's about to die in his 11th life in 1996, a little girl comes along and tells him the world is ending.  This is a message that has been passed down in this manner for a thousand years.

ch 2: Harry is a bastard child.  The product of a rape who's mother died in child birth.  He didn't know any of this during his first life because he was adopted by the Augusts who work on the rapist's land and raised him as their own and was provided for by the rapist's sister.  Did I mention the rapist was rich?  Harry died in 1989 in his first life.

ch 3: In general, people do not handle circular life very well.  Harry certainly did not.  In his second life he was commited when he was 7 years old and commited suicide shortly after.

ch 4: give or take a bit, Mrs. August dies when Harry is 7 every life.  In his 3rd life he comes to the relization that the lord of the manner that his parents work at is his father.

ch 5: Harry was in world war 2, like most men his age.  in his first life he volunteered and in his third life he got drafted and became a plane mechanic.  The main difference between those experiences is that in his third life he tried to learn things that would be useful in the next.

ch 6: in his fourth life harry became a doctor mostly so he can study himself.  He fell in love with a lady surgen named jenny and when he was 57, made the mistake of telling her the truth.  He ended up in the same asylum he did as a child in his second life.

ch 7: being in an asylum sucks

ch 8: it probably sucks less now than it did in the 1960s where they did whatever they wanted to you.

ch 9: in his 7th life he saw jenny again at a medical conference and tried to have an affair with her.

ch 10: Back to his time in the asylum in his 4th life.  A new doctor comes along and tells Harry that the old doctor has been fired.  He's now free to contact his wife.  Maybe sue the old doctor so she can make some money off of Harry's suffering.  The new doctor believes Harry and wants him to help who he refers to as "the good guys" with what he knows.  Then he tells him about a group called the chronus club.  A group of people like Harry that get together periodically.  The big question, if they exist, is what they do.  

ch 11-16:  i read these all at once.  Harry travels around the world in life 3 trying to find religious answers to his whole deal.  He doesn't.  but he does have chinese intelligence threaten to kill him.  Back to life 4 where a British intelligence,a man named phearson, dopes him up with drugs and interrogates him in a thoroughly unpleasant manner.

ch 17: in life 6 Harry gets into physics. Has a PHD at 23, gets invited to the manhattan project. Is throughly dissatisfied with the food and heating in the first half of his life.  Talks to an undergrad about timetravel for half the chapter.

ch 18: back to being tortured by phearson

ch 19: harry writes a letter to his wife saying he loves her.  He also writes a letter to a friend asking him to put an ad in the paper requesting assistance from the Chronus club.

ch 20: A lady comes from the Chronus club to "save" Harry.  She says to meet her on july 1st 2 pm trafalger square.  She hands him a pen knife he uses to kill himself

ch 21: In life 3 when harry is aware that the lord of the manner is his biological father he goes to church a lot and he had a couple childhood churtch related conversations with his biological father.  He thinks maybe his father is also a life repeater, maybe these things are genetic.  But he dares not ask him.

ch 22: In his fifth life, Harry is very sad.  Mostly because he is suffering from PTSD of being tortured in his 4th life.  He writes a letter to his biological father telling his torture story but as if it happened during world war 1.  

Ch 23: He gets drafted into the army in 1939, but he's got that meeting iwth the lady from the Chronus club in 1940, so he becomes a draft dodger.  The meet happens and he's very happy to have found someone else like him.  

ch 24: Virginia is the lady's name.  She talks him through the whole deal of the Chronus club.  

ch 25: Every now and then some Kalachakra (That's what the multi-lifers call themselves) tries to use their knowledge to "fix" the world and it's often a disater.  One such incident was caused by a man named Viktor Hoeness.  He decided the french king could make the world a better place if given knowledge of the future.  This starts out kinda bad cause it involves the French taking over mostof Europe through violent war but ends up much worse with all this future knowledge resutling in a Nuclear war in the early 1900s.

ch 26: The big problem with this as far as the Kalachara are concerend is that this interfered with the future birth of Kalachara.  If a Kalacahra dies, no big deal, they come back and do it all again.  But if something happens such that a Kalachara is not born, then there is no next time.  This is a big no no.  Also explained in this chapter is that Kalachara can simply forget they've had past lives.  Also something that can happen is that a Kalachara gets tortured to death so much so that it renders them ineffectual in the next life.  They tried this with Viktor Hoeness.  But after a few lifetimes this wears off.  So the Kalachara went back and made it so that Viktor Hoeness was never born.  Virginia also talks about how some Kalachara just forget their previous lives. 

Ch 27: The news that really disturbs Harry is that Kalachara can forget.  It makes him wonder if he really remembers his previous lives or if he is just kinda trying to fill it in with his imagination.  I also wonder if he's actually lived many more lives than he currently thinks and he has forgotten the previous ones.

ch 28:   Harry is arguing with his undergrad about time travel.  Harry gets really into it and slips up and starts to talk about future techology,  and undergrad is all "OMG, you're Chronus club." and then he punches him a couple times

ch 29: In his 12th life, Harry gathers up the Chronus Club (all of them, quite the site to see) to pass on the message he was given.  Unfortunately,they don't have much to go on as to what they should pass to the past.

ch 30: This chapter is about a time when Harry killed a man that was serial murdering sex workers.  Or he tried.  The man ended up stabbing him and Harry died.

ch 31: Harry gives a message to a dying man that the world is ending.  His reponse: Excellent, something new to talk about.

ch 32: Harry uses his future knowledge to create a HUGE investment company.  So he's got all the money he needs to do whatever he wants.

ch 33: Another thing Harry uses his HUGE investment company to seek out people that are ahead of their time.  He finds a company in East Germany that is developing radios that are using techology from 13 years in the future.  Having bought the comapny, he can go there and ask questions.  The guy that is credited for the invention that is futuristic tells Harry that he spent some time in Russia and learned what he needed there to create the advanced radio.  The man that he said was gonna change the world was named Vitali Karpenko.  So Harry goes to Russia to find this man assuming he's the cause of the end of the world.

ch 34: Harry reminises about his many past lives and gets on a train to Leningrad.

legion's memory first 4 stories

Story 1: drive pg 1

Solomon Epstein, inventor of the Epstein drive had a life on Mars before he invented the drive and accidentally killed himself. This is back before Mars was truly independent. Except for the ever present existential dread of Earth invading for whatever reason, it sounds like a good life. He had friends he enjoyed hanging out with and a job he liked and eventually an SO he was planning to grow old with. As he's being crushed to death by the g forces of never ending acceleration that's only now possible due to the efficiency of his drive design, he thinks this is going to change everything and it's a bummer he won't be there to see it.

Story 2 butcher of Anderson station pg 26

This one's fun cause it's two stories at once. One is the story of Anderson station from Fred Johnson's point of view. The other is how he ended up working for the OPA.

Story 3 gods of Risk pg 55

[To the tune of Rudolph the red nosed reigndeer.]

You know Bobbie Drapper the famous Mars marine. But do you 

recall? The least famous Draper of all. David, the chemistry student. 

He cooked up some drugs. 

He gave them to a guy to sell them, 

that guy"s name was Hutch.

Shenhannegans ensue.  Hutch is thinking killing David to tie up loose ends is a good idea.  Luckily Bobbie folloed David and beatsh Hutch within an inch of his life.  Hutch agrees to let bygones be bygones cause he doesnt want Bobbie to continue said beatings until his life is extinguished.

story 4 the churn

the chrun is a term the criminal underworld at least the ones in this story use to describe the phenomena of the powers that be bringing in a group of government thugs to get tough on crime.  One such churn is happening in this story in Baltimore.

Amos Burton is a crime boss.  He's got a guy named Erich working for him.  Then there's this guy named Timmy who's working for Erich.  Timmy killed a guy and Amos wants to talk to him about it.  Amos finds himself being charmed a bit by Timmy and decides not to kill or fire him or anything.  He tells Timmy that his job is to protect Erich.  I suspect it's because while Amos sees value in having a violent murderer around, he doesn't want to send him on jobs unsupervised.  So Erich will be the brains to Timmy's brawn from here on out.

Timmy's mom is dead.  He's still close with one of her old friends Lydia.  They do sex sometimes.  This seems to be a friends with benefits situation.

Erich and Timmy are doing crime stuff involving fake identities and what not.  Erich is kinda heads down doing whatever when Timmy sees an anti-crime sweep coming and grabs Erich and runs.  The downside to Timmy's heroics is that Erich's computer is left behind and that's real bad.  They talk about a DNA lock that I don't understand.

Timmy sees the writing on the wall and tells Erich to hang tight while he takes care of some business.  Said business is making sure Lydia is ok.  He's got an abandoned island he takes Lydia to.  He takes Erich there too.

Timmy goes to see Amos Burton cause he's the man with the plan.  Amos gives Timmy a gun.  A gun he should shoot Erich with cause right now the cops just have a computer they can't use.  If they also catch Erich, they'll be able to unlock his computer and then they'll have way too much info they can use against Amost Burton.

Timmy goes to the island to kill Erich.  Lydia talks him out of it.  Timmy goes back and kills Amos Burton.

Timmy then gets picked up by a chrime sweep.  He ain't too woried about it cause he's undocumented and it'll just be a mater of time before they let him go.  But then the sweeper is all "you're Amos Burton and you've got a space ship to catch." and Timmy is all like "GOD DAMN IT ERICH!!!!"  But he's not that upset about it and he catches the space ship.