Stice comes to Lyle: do not underestimate objects

Lyle's core doctrine, the scene's title-refrain, delivered to Stice: the material world is not to be condescended to. "Do not leave objects out of account... the world... is made up mostly of objects." In the body-as-machine frame this is the guru's foundational realism — the weights, the strings, the ankle, the bed, the body itself are all objects, all radically old, all more powerful than the ego that thinks it's driving them. It's also the seed later readings of Stice's wraith-plot will need: the pedagogy that will make Stice's later feats of the body against the building's objects (the moved bed, the window) legible as more than haunting.