"The saga of Eric Clipperton" — taught as E.T.A. curriculum

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texture · 11 Nov YDAU (afterlife)

When: the pedagogical afterlife, voiced 11 Nov YDAU (Poutrincourt to Steeply)
What: Prorector Thierry Poutrincourt, explaining Schtitt's program to Steeply, names Clipperton as the pure case of one of the two dooms of the étoile who attains: you reach the goal and are "impaled by shock" to find it does not complete or redeem you. "the children here are versed in what is called the saga of Eric Clipperton" — the doctrine that talent and work can make you the best, but "you are doomed if you do not have also within you some ability to transcend the goal." Steeply checks the spelling ("With two p's?"); "Just so."