Total Worry — the administrative identity

pivotal · standing (YTSDB-YDAU); dawn 9 Nov YDAU

• When: standing condition; the dawn tableau is 9 Nov YDAU
• What: Tavis's craft as Headmaster is a self-described "reverse-Buddhism, a state of Total Worry": matriculations, gender quotas, aid, room-assignments, schedules, all sorted into "a sort of tree-diagram of worry" that gets him out of bed at an ungodly hour to stand at the HmH window over the dawn drills, lips moving without sound, hands working his decaf. Pemulis, surveilling, hears him chanting on the StairBlaster what sounds like "Total worry total worry." The engineering of stress-dispersal turned inward and made a personality.