Chapter 24: Pledges, the Council of Genres and Searching for Deane Summary

Chapter 24: Pledges, the Council of Genres and Searching for Deane opens immediately following Chapter 23. Miss Havisham and Thursday take the elevator because Miss Havisham thinks it is vulgar to jump to the lobby of the Council of Genres.

Thursday asks where the libraries are situated, and Miss Havisham says no one really knows. Thursday asks who the Great Panjandrum is, and Miss Havisham shows Thursday the statue. She explains the Great Panjandrum is the architect of everything and controls all that is done.

Miss Havisham shows Thursday the Council in meeting before taking her to be sworn in and get her Jurisfiction badge. Miss Havisham reveals that Tweed, Perkins, Deane and she were given an Ultra Word(TM) book to test, which creates a link...