the Feral Prodigy script: how to read the rankings, care and not care
Here is how to read the monthly E.T.A. and U.S.T.A. and O.N.A.N.T.A. rankings [...] Learn to care and not to care. They mean the rankings to help you determine where you are, not who you are. Memorize your monthly rankings, and forget them. Here is how: never tell anyone where you are.
Context
The Feral Prodigy script turns from the body to the numbers that rank it, and hands down the same care-and-not-care discipline the creed demands: read the monthly rankings "the way Himself read scholars' reviews," to "determine where you are, not who you are." The instruction is to "Learn to care and not to care" — memorize your standing and then forget it, "never tell anyone where you are" — so the ranking machine's monthly verdict on the body stays a coordinate and not an identity. It is 065/n089's paradox delivered as survival advice to the prodigy: the apparatus will number you every month, and the only way to live inside it is to hold the number and let it go at once.