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"'''Your Gun, My Head'''" is a Russian roulette performance art routine developed by [[John Havelock]] while touring with [[Carnevale Tenebre]].
[[|thumb|Havelock.]]"'''Your Gun, My Head'''" is a Russian roulette performance art routine developed by [[John Havelock]] while touring with [[Carnevale Tenebre]].


[[File:Havelock.jpg|thumb|Havelock.]]'''John Havelock''', often referred to as '''Judge Havelock''' or simply '''Havelock''', is a [[mathematician]] alleged time-traveller, usually found in [[Periphery (town)|Periphery]] between 1801 and 1911.
== History ==


Havelock provides a timeline-rewriting service judgement service involving the transdimensional substance [[Extract of Radium]], usually mixed with various computer programs of his own design, such as ''[[Havelock Plays Russian Roulette]]''.
Havelock, often referred to as '''Judge Havelock''' or simply '''Havelock''', is a [[mathematician]] alleged time-traveller, usually found in [[Periphery (town)|Periphery]] between 1801 and 1911.  


He is sometimes referred to as "The man who doesn't get killed," because death doesn't happen to him, while [[Traversal|Traversing]] his 1801-1911 range.
Havelock runs an unlicensed [[Transdimensional corporation]] functioning as timeline-rewriting service for [[Transdimensional law]] agencies.


Havelock is a hostile colleague of [[Baron Zersetzung]]. Baron Z accuses Havelock of "rewriting too much [[Extract of Radium]] for clear thinking."
In order to fund these activities he periodically tours with [[Carnevale Tenebre]], the malign supernatural performing arts venue.


== Commentary ==
In his "Your Gun, My Head" routine, Havelock invites any Carnevale reveler to play Russian Roulette, with the reveler(s) providing the matched revolvers. 


May 11, 2020:  John Havelock is [[myself]] as an American West gunslinger and inventor who has exchanged alcoholism for immortality.
Havelock has estimated that he plays Your Gun, My Head "about seventy times a year", although his friend [[Niles Cartouchian]] is known [how?] to have put the number at "at least two hundred and fifty-six" times per years.
 
He is sometimes referred to as "The man who doesn't get killed" as a consequence of his statistically improbable survival rate.


== In the News ==
== In the News ==


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File:Havelock.jpg|link=John Havelock|[[John Havelock]]
[[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]] to within 98.37% accuracy. 
File:Carnevale Tenebre vise logo.jpg|link=Carnevale Tenebre|1906: New sideshow at [[Carnevale Tenebre]] is "fronting all kinds of [[math crimes]]," says mathematician and alleged immortal John Havelock.


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== Fiction cross-reference ==
== Fiction cross-reference ==


* [[Alice Beta]]
* [[Niles Cartouchian]]
* [[John Havelock]]
* [[John Havelock]]
* [[Havelock interview]]
* [[Havelock interview]]
* ''[[Havelock Plays Russian Roulette]]''
* ''[[Havelock Plays Russian Roulette]]''
* ''[[John Havelock and Henri Poincaré]]''
* ''[[John Havelock and Henri Poincaré]]''
* [[Luck-monger]]
* [[Periphery (town)]]
* [[Periphery (town)]]
* [[Salvatore]]
* [[The Patrick Device]]
* [[Traversal]]
* [[Traversal]]


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* [[Gnomon Algorithm (nonfiction)]]
* [[Gnomon Algorithm (nonfiction)]]
* [[Edmund Burke (nonfiction)]]
* [[Havelock interview]]
* [[Hollerith (nonfiction)]]
* [[Patrick Ladwig (nonfiction)]]
* [[Skate-boxing (nonfiction)]]


[[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]]
[[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]]

Revision as of 11:44, 16 February 2021

[[|thumb|Havelock.]]"Your Gun, My Head" is a Russian roulette performance art routine developed by John Havelock while touring with Carnevale Tenebre.

History

Havelock, often referred to as Judge Havelock or simply Havelock, is a mathematician alleged time-traveller, usually found in Periphery between 1801 and 1911.

Havelock runs an unlicensed Transdimensional corporation functioning as timeline-rewriting service for Transdimensional law agencies.

In order to fund these activities he periodically tours with Carnevale Tenebre, the malign supernatural performing arts venue.

In his "Your Gun, My Head" routine, Havelock invites any Carnevale reveler to play Russian Roulette, with the reveler(s) providing the matched revolvers.

Havelock has estimated that he plays Your Gun, My Head "about seventy times a year", although his friend Niles Cartouchian is known [how?] to have put the number at "at least two hundred and fifty-six" times per years.

He is sometimes referred to as "The man who doesn't get killed" as a consequence of his statistically improbable survival rate.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference