Blindfolded in a corner before the M.I.T. exhibition

texture · 20 Nov YDAU

• When: 20 Nov YDAU, the E.T.A. locker room immediately before the Fundraiser-Exhibition-Fête against the Quebec junior squads
• What: Amid the pre-exhibition dressing-and-taping ritual, Arslanian sits very still in a corner, blindfolded in what was either an ascot or a very fey necktie, head cocked "in the attitude of the blind" — the volunteer-blindness experiment at its most iconic, still running some two-plus weeks on, with no development or resolution the book records. The same scene carries the Doucette-Pemulis orbit at its edge (Doucette reports having seen Pemulis by the West House dumpsters that morning, "lurking" and looking "anxiously depressed" — quoted words nested in the source text). The book's last image of Arslanian.