Taking prorector classes
Schacht’s old man died of ulcerative colitis and Ted came up to join his old childhood doubles partner at the Academy in the fall of the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar, which had been four months after the late E.T.A. Headmaster’s felo de se
Context
The digest's own note tags this an untagged fathers-sons data-point, and the clause earns it: buried inside an explanation of why Troeltsch does the WETA sports broadcasts is the fact that Ted Schacht only came to E.T.A. because his father died — of ulcerative colitis, the disease Schacht's own Crohn's is elsewhere called a bequest from — arriving four months after the Academy's own father-founder shot himself, onto a campus still banded in black for that death. Two dead fathers stacked in one dependent clause. What lands is how the passage treats both as pure logistics — the reason a broadcast slot opened up — the paternal deaths load-bearing but the sentence refusing to slow down for either.