Locker-room banter: heckles, Pledge grooming, and the "good Nazi" provocation

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texture · 3 Nov YDAU, 1640h

When: Tuesday 3 November YDAU, ~1640h, Comm.-Ad. males' locker room after P.M. matches
What: Half-asleep against the lockers with Shaw, Freer rouses to heckle Hal's prodigy act ("Do a dictionary-page for us, man, Inc."), supplies flat schedule corrections (classes off for I-Day Eve, but "Drills and challenges go merrily on, deLint says"), needles Troeltsch's conveniently timed illnesses, and makes the obscene "Generate this" gesture at him. A "major Pledge-devotee," he ends the scene at his hair in the mirror, from which he blames Tavis for the workload ("Where there's excess work and suffering can fucking Tavis be far behind") and then drops the line that nearly gets something thrown at him by the Schtitt-loyal Stice.