Endnote 76: the halo of approved grace
when he’d extracted what was desired from memory and faultlessly pronounced it before certain persons, he’d felt almost that same pale sweet aura that an LSD afterglow conferred, some milky corona, like almost a halo of approved grace, made all the milkier by the faultless nonchalance of a Moms who made it clear that his value was not contingent on winning first or even second prize, ever.
Context
The catalogued Light & halation sighting whose text lives in this note. Scene-side anchor: Hal describing the post-hallucinogen dawn as "a kind of pale sweet aura, a luminescence. [n.76]" and Axford answering with the technical term — "Halation." The endnote runs the aura back before any drug: childhood recital for the Moms conferred the same "milky corona, like almost a halo of approved grace" that LSD afterglow would later approximate — approval as the original photic drug, named in Himself's optics vocabulary. The p. 218 scene-side text is carried at 057's own entry; this entry carries the endnote only.