The unscreening experiment

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texture · ~YDPAH (Gately's residency), right before Gately's 90-day chip

When: during Gately's residency, "right before Gately got his 90-day chip"
What: Eugenio "lovingly confronted" Gately about his burglar's gift for selective attention — the ability to screen input on and off like a light — warning it could be dangerous because "how can you be sure it's you doing the screening and not The Spider." He called Gately into the House Manager's back office and proposed "an experimental unscreening of input for a while." Gately agreed, went out, tried to un-screen while two residents discussed a rodent skeleton removed from someone's rectum — and "the unscreening experiment had lasted half an hour."