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


I am that man.
His time-traveling ability, and apparent immortality, result from his addiction to [[Extract of Radium]].


== Nomenclature ==
He is sometimes referred to as "The man who doesn't get killed," because of his habit of playing Russian Roulette for money.


"Call me Havelock" would make a true point.  But it's not good enough.
== In the News ==


I have thought to play Ishmael. But no.  That's not good enough. It doesn't go far enough. [[Melville]] meant well, but he couldn't finish the job.
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File:Your_Gun,_My_Head.jpg|link=Your Gun, My Head|The "[[Your Gun, My Head]]" scene from ''[[Bargain (nonfiction)|Bargain]]''.


A man needs a name, if he is to belong to the world, and the world to him.
File:John Havelock and Henri Poincaré.jpg|link=John Havelock and Henri Poincaré|1892: Mathematicians [[John Havelock and Henri Poincaré|John Havelock and Henri Poincaré]] co-publish a pioneering paper on applications of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions to the early detection of emergent catastrophic events, forecasting the [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]] to within 98.37% accuracy.


A man without a name, without the power of names, suffers [[anomie (nonfiction)]].
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.


You need a name for me. I need a name for myself.
File:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|[[Clock Head]] advises Judge Havelock to drink less [[Extract of Radium]], less often.


For the mind that must give names, everything needs a name.
File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|''[[Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery]]'' "is probably accurate, although I am dead at the time," says Havelock.


(Memo to mind: take occasional time outs: stop naming, relax, meditate. Then get back to it, refreshed.)
File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|Havelock and [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] share Nobel Prize in Physics for [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|research into electrical field modulation and data transmission]].


Man gave names to all the animals.  Still does.
File:Nikola Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] invites Havelock to collaborate on electric transmission project.


Man gives names to all that he can name.
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== The Man Who Doesn't Get Killed ==
 
You probably know me as "The Man Who Doesn't Get Killed," something like that, and not as some old guy who goes on about the [[Old Testament (nonfiction)]] and [[Herman Melville (nonfiction)]].
 
Please do not ever refer to me as "The man who can't be killed."  I always said that wasn't true, from the beginning.  It causes nothing but attempts on my life, and it's gotten a lot of good and undeserving people murdered, so enough already.
 
This is the twenty-first century, not the agriculture-through-industrialism nation-state building phase.  Many of the old problems no longer apply, and we should stop behaving as if they do.
 
As for the new problems, I will come back to that in a while.
 
== Hollerith ==
 
[[Hollerith]] is a personal friend of mine, and I need him to keep doing business, so please accord to him the same "Man who doesn't get killed" status that you do for me.
 
He is The Card Man.  He has Cards.  You want Cards.  Simple.  Don't mess with The Card Man, please.
 
== Luck-monger ==
 
Some people call him [[Luck-monger]].
 
== The Patrick Device ==
 
[[The Patrick Device]] was invented for me by my friend [[Patrick Ladwig (nonfiction)]].
 
== Salvatore ==
 
Havelock and [[Salvatore]] have been friends for a long time.


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


* [[Baron Zersetzung]] - hostile colleague
* [[Clock Head]] - ally
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Hollister]]
* [[Havelock interview]]
* ''[[Havelock Plays Russian Roulette]]''
* [[Hollerith]]
* ''[[John Havelock and Henri Poincaré]]''
* [[Luck-monger]]
* [[Luck-monger]]
* [[Periphery (town)]]
* [[Salvatore]]
* [[Salvatore]]
* [[The Patrick Device]]
* [[The Patrick Device]]
* [[Traversal]]
* [[Your Gun, My Head]]


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==


* [[Gnomon Algorithm (nonfiction)]]
* [[Hollerith (nonfiction)]]
* [[Patrick Ladwig (nonfiction)]]
* [[Patrick Ladwig (nonfiction)]]


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Latest revision as of 16:16, 19 January 2023

Havelock.

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

His time-traveling ability, and apparent immortality, result from his addiction to Extract of Radium.

He is sometimes referred to as "The man who doesn't get killed," because of his habit of playing Russian Roulette for money.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

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