15 Among the many other famous pieces of music Earle Hagen composed during his prolific career are the themes to The Andy Griffith Show and I Spy, the latter of which won him an Emmy.

32 Our first indication that Cephiro has advanced, or at least 21st-century-ish, technologies, contradicting the narration regarding Utena's impression of flying machines over Worcester in the Second Movement.

34 I believe this is the first reference by name to Nihonia, to the Cephirean country where Ohtori Academy is located, and the fact that it's at "the center of the world" (really the center of Cephiro's only significant continent).

47 "59 Saint-Louis-en-l'Île Street, please."

72 IRCAM is a real organization and puts on a conference of the same name as the one Kate is attending every year, but what actually goes on at that conference in this story is entirely the product of my own imagination.

144 M. Janvier is a descendent of one of the supporting characters in Georges Simenon's Maigret series of detective novels - Chief Inspector Maigret's right-hand man Inspector Janvier. The Brasserie Dauphine is also a location in the Maigret books; as the closest restaurant to Judicial Police Headquarters on the Quai des Orfévres, it's where Maigret and his men spend many a lunch hour in the books.

213 Contrefilet is the French word for what an American would call a New York sirloin strip - essentially a Porterhouse minus the tenderloin part.

411 A completely fictitious organization.

442 Jean-Jacques Ragulin, whose full name won't be revealed until the Fourth Symphony, is not based on any particular person or character, but rather represents a sort of distillation of all the black-leather-wearing, affectedly gaunt "futurists" one encounters in coffeehouse music scenes the world over.

553 I got the idea for this scene from a musing on the Parisian tradition of argument in one of the vignettes in the Travelers' Tales volume devoted to Paris, which I read as part of the background research for this piece.

577 Juri seems to have missed the fact that Kate's making reference to her here.

585 Of course, given what would eventually transpire between Kate, Juri, and Miki, this whole conversation becomes that much more amusing in retrospect.

678 My poor grasp of French caused me to render this line "colonies dans les étoiles" in the first released version, at which point several concerned readers pointed out to me the difference between the French words for "among" and "inside".

684 I'm not a huge fan of French in general, but I must confess that I, for whatever reason, adore the word arrondissement.

754 In the original released version, this line contained another terminological blunder. I was unable to find any useful references on fencing at the time (this was before Wikipedia), and so did not know that the "in-bounds" area in which sport fencing is conducted is called the piste. Left to my own devices, I rather clumsily dubbed it "the line of conflict".

859 I wanted Juri to have a vaguely supernatural encounter in Paris, to further contrast her new life against her furious disbelief in luck and karma during the Lost Tournament. Plus, she needed a new sword. D'accord!

931 Once again, Anne Cross provides fashion design.

942 I don't know why I persist in using the redundant phrase "fedora hat". It's like calling a piece of furniture a "divan sofa". I just like the rhythm of it, I guess.

996 On the face of it, this claim seems a bit suspect, since there are thousands of Earth languages and dialects. Then again, the narration refers to "Salusian" earlier when the language meant is almost certainly Cheltarese, the Salusian crown tongue, so we know some liberties are being taken for the sake of concision. At any rate, Gryphon has at least a working knowledge of hundreds of spoken and written languages by this point in his career. Linguistics is one of the areas of study for which Detianism optimizes the brain.

1059 20 Masks, master thief, is a reference to CLAMP Campus Detectives, another series by the creators of Magic Knight Rayearth.

1062 Lucas is also named after one of Maigret's subordinates. La Fontaine and Superintendent Marquette are original creations. I liked these three French cops enough to bring them back for a guest appearance in the Third Symphony.

1145 Or repeating the advice my father gave me when I was Kate's age.

1170 Gryphon spent a very long time assuming that he would never be interested in having children, then, in a comparatively short time, found himself with five. The adjustment in perspective was harder than he would ever have expected. I've had relatively few chances to explore that aspect of his development and was glad when this one came along.

1218 Also known as the theme from Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

1255 Hassy Cola is a reference to the Sega Dreamcast game Blue Stinger, a near-future survival horror game in which the protagonist can buy cans of Hassy from vending machines to replenish his health.

1339 This entire incident is based on a hotel adventure Truss once had, down to the one out-of-order vending machine displaying the cryptic-but-ominous message "DOOR SVC". It's the reason why the real Hôtel des Deux Îles has been replaced with a 30-story tower in this piece.

1366 Here's Maigret again.

1368 Belote découverte is a two-player variant of belote, which in its natural form is played with two teams of four, like bridge.

1390 Or four, if you count the twins separately.

1423 The Pompidou Centre really is the most outrageously ugly building, and all the more so because it's that way on purpose. As Bill Bryson notes in Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe, it's the architect saying, "Look at me! I put all the pipes on the outside! Am I cute enough to kiss or what."

1446 This is the dress worn by Jennifer Connelly's character in the nightclub scene in The Rocketeer, later drawn (along with Kate's Ginrei-style formal dress) by Phil Moyer.

1460 The name of the planet Granvaal IV is supposed to evoke a sort of South African veldt feel, to go along with the theme of the all-drum piece that group performs.

1477 Inspired by an Internet FAQ on playing the redbook audio off console game CDs, which advised, "If you hear something that sounds like a jumbo jet playing the trombone, that's the data track."

1507 Mr. Statler, the heckler, is of course a reference to Statler (of Statler & Waldorf fame) from The Muppet Show.

1558 Juri's interpretation of Sonata No. 14 in G, and how it contrasts with Gryphon's shown earlier, illustrates how we each bring our own experiences and expectations to a piece of music, whatever the composer's intent.

1760 These two are not supposed to be Aeryn and Chiana from Farscape, though, in retrospect, I can see where they might be taken for them; I did inadvertently make the human one quite resemble Aeryn.

1766 Arsène Lupin III, who, for some reason, I remembered as favoring loud plaid jackets when I wrote this scene.

1864 Once again, the position of Resident Juriologist comes into play. While I had no direct writing duties in this one, I did help refine the interactions between Kate and Juri, and provided research assist on the city of Paris. (And I'd just like to say that Juri Arisugawa looks hotter in that cream-colored dress than Jennifer Connelly, no matter what other people may say.) PJM

In retrospect, with her coloring, she'd probably have looked still better in a red or green version of the same dress.

It's also called "the strip" by those of us who don't know French... I just took it as some kind of weird UF-version of fencing... with people experimenting with fencing in the round (a circular field of play, as opposed to a 20m x 1.5m strip) anything is possible in the 25th century one dimention over...

-Z

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In retrospect, with her coloring, she'd probably have looked still better in a red or green version of the same dress.

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