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[[File:Weaver.png|thumb|150px|right|''WEAVER: Nice to know you, Conway. Keep your eyes open. Especially in the dark!'']] | [[File:Weaver.png|thumb|150px|right|''WEAVER: Nice to know you, Conway. Keep your eyes open. Especially in the dark!'']] | ||
'''Weaver Márquez''' is a gifted mathematician and [[Shannon]]'s cousin and childhood friend. A mysterious woman with a semi-mystical | '''Weaver Márquez''' is a gifted mathematician and [[Shannon]]'s cousin and childhood friend. A mysterious woman with a semi-mystical | ||
− | presence, Weaver guides [[Conway]] and Shannon to the {{ZeroLink}} in [[Act I]].Shannon describes her as having had trouble focusing in high school, saying, "She was so smart, but always going off in different directions, mind racing, like five conversations going on in her head at once and you're lucky if even one of them is with someone in the room." She has a tendency to mysteriously disappear. | + | presence, Weaver guides [[Conway]] and Shannon to the {{ZeroLink}} in [[Act I]]. She is often cryptic, but never lies. Shannon describes her as having had trouble focusing in high school, saying, "She was so smart, but always going off in different directions, mind racing, like five conversations going on in her head at once and you're lucky if even one of them is with someone in the room." She has a tendency to mysteriously disappear. |
== Life and work == | == Life and work == | ||
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This same video appeared dozens of times over multiple years before the station was wiped out by a [[Un Pueblo De Nada|flood]]. Mimi remarks that the video of Weaver may have been the station's last broadcast before the flood. | This same video appeared dozens of times over multiple years before the station was wiped out by a [[Un Pueblo De Nada|flood]]. Mimi remarks that the video of Weaver may have been the station's last broadcast before the flood. | ||
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== Family == | == Family == | ||
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== Name & references == | == Name & references == | ||
− | Weaver is named after scientist and mathematician [[wikipedia:Warren Weaver|Warren Weaver]] and the famous Colombian magical realist author [[wikipedia:Gabriel García Márquez|Gabriel García Márquez]]. Her and her | + | Weaver is named after scientist and mathematician [[wikipedia:Warren Weaver|Warren Weaver]] and the famous Colombian magical realist author [[wikipedia:Gabriel García Márquez|Gabriel García Márquez]]. Her and her sister's names reference the [[wikipedia:Shannon–Weaver model|Shannon–Weaver model]] of communication, used in the fields of information theory and telecommunications, and the street name and number of their family's farmhouse, 100 Macondo Lane, are references to the town of [[wikipedia:Macondo|Macondo]] in Márquez's novel ''[[wikipedia:One Hundred Years of Solitude|One Hundred Years of Solitude]]''. |
In [[Act I]], Weaver asks Conway, "Which of your parents was it who wouldn't allow you to watch television?", a near-direct quote from the play ''[[wikipedia:Equus (play)|Equus]]''. | In [[Act I]], Weaver asks Conway, "Which of your parents was it who wouldn't allow you to watch television?", a near-direct quote from the play ''[[wikipedia:Equus (play)|Equus]]''. | ||
Per the {{V&A}}, Shannon's framing of Weaver – "But Weaver's not a puzzle. She's a mystery." – is a reference to the writings of Gregory Treverton. Treverton differentiates the concepts by describing a puzzle as something solvable if information was not being withheld, while a mystery provides too much information with no guarantee of relevance; puzzles can be solved, but mysteries can only be framed. | Per the {{V&A}}, Shannon's framing of Weaver – "But Weaver's not a puzzle. She's a mystery." – is a reference to the writings of Gregory Treverton. Treverton differentiates the concepts by describing a puzzle as something solvable if information was not being withheld, while a mystery provides too much information with no guarantee of relevance; puzzles can be solved, but mysteries can only be framed. | ||
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