the Bain transcript: Lyle up in Ontario, before the Academy

The guru thread's one pre-E.T.A. anchor. Long before the weight room and the towel dispenser, Lyle already existed and already held Himself as a supplicant — "The Stork would disappear periodically when money came in," Orin recalls, "going back up to Lyle in Ontario." The sweat-guru predates the academy that houses him; the body-mysticism E.T.A. later institutionalizes was something Himself was seeking out privately, in another country, when Hal was small. Lyle is older than the weight room he sits in.