Lula Chamberlain

Flipping through the pages, Conway is able to gather that it's a story about three characters: Joseph, Donald, and Lula. It's something like a tragic love triangle, but much more complex. Some kind of tangled, painfully concave love polygon.

Lula is a friend of Joseph and Donald from their college days, the three of whom were involved in a complicated love polygon. Lula helped to build XANADU, but grew apart from the two after living in Mexico for three years without contacting them.

Life and work

Lula was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, but frequented – and loved – Mexico City. Her installation-based artwork is featured in a museum, hosting a retrospective exhibit entitled Limits & Demonstrations. She is the set designer for The Entertainment and a Senior Clerk at the Bureau of Reclaimed Spaces. Sometime before the events of Act II, she applied to be a fellow at the Gaston Trust for Imagined Architecture but was rejected. She used to live on a street named Dogwood Drive (different from the one Conway searches for) and owned a dog.

Name

Her name is a reference to William Chamberlain, the author of The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed, the first book written by a computer, and quoted in the dialogue for the pieces exhibited in Limits & Demonstrations.