The second level: 'it's a game'.

'Yes, a multi-level, online and real world puzzle.'
'Are there clues in My Painted Elephant?'
'My Painted Elephant has background information, it will help to read it, if you can. I know it was written in a rush but you can learn something about the characters and the settings'.
Brenda struggles to except that her good modern life is all her life is going to be and leaves her family to write a novel while living rough in Paris. Her novel is about the Theodorus Spiral, holograms and time entanglement.

'What is the first accomplishment in the real world puzzle?'
'You go to the bookshop and play Homeless in Paris'.