the garage gospel: learn to do nothing and everything gets done

The garage gospel's founding paradox, and the seed of everything Schtitt will later refine: "learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you." The father recruits Brando as proof — the actor "felt himself as body so keenly he'd no need for manner," which the father reads as "the equivalent of high-level quality tennis." The doctrine is already whole two generations before E.T.A.: mastery is self-erasing effortlessness, the body so at one with its objects that the world does the work. This is 036's "disappear into the loop" and 051's "long waking dream of pure play," stated at the source.