Somalia stands out as the best location for Baudolino’s second CIA mission, after the first one in Peru. In Tom Robbins’s book Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Switters delivers in 1990’s gas masks to kurds fighting in Syria. In my movie adaptation, Somalia had reverted to monarchy since 2041, has lots of rare metal resources, and now Shia and Sunni Bedouin clans fight guerrilla wars against India and Saudi Arabia mining them. Baudolino delivers low frequency sonic protection gear and sensors to Somalia’s Sunni Bedouins. Moreover, I’ve found on the internet conical pyramids and an old fortress, a good location for the presumptive convent of the Pachomian Order’s nuns. Baudolino falls in love with one of the nuns; the fortress image includes the love story semiotics.
