Consulting Lyle: a good jump on worrying about it

texture · 8 Nov YDAU, I-Day night

• When: 8 Nov YDAU, Interdependence Day night, in the dark weight room during Mario's gala screening.
• What: While the academy watches the film, ten-year-old Blott is down among Lyle's petitioners with a trouble that is entirely anticipatory: raised Seventh-Day Adventist, "isn't yet old enough to masturbate, but he hears quite a lot about it, not surprisingly, from his adolescent peers, in rather lush detail" — and is worried about what sorts of homemade-type potentially wicked and soul-sapping pornographic cartridges will run through his psychic projector when he eventually can, and whether different fantasy combinations herald different psychic dysfunctions or turpitude. He "wants to get a good jump on worrying about it." Lyle's whole oracular answer is a weight-room koan: "Lyle tells Blott not to let the weight he would pull to himself exceed his own personal weight." Precocious, scrupulous, terrified in advance — his defining solo appearance.