Locker room, Big Buddies and fatigue (p. 102)
‘It’d be like a pleasant fatigue if I could just go up after dinner and hunker on down with the mind in neutral and watch something uncomplex.’ ‘Not have to worry about prescriptive forms or acutance.’
Context
The R-and-R fantasy round: what stands between these kids and rest is, in one breath, "prescriptive forms or acutance" — Avril's grammar exam and JOI's optics vocabulary fused into a single burden. The two parental inheritances of the whole theme, named as the things a tired child would most like to stop carrying.