Fortier departs to attend Luria's "technical interview of more importance" in Phoenix

texture · 19 Nov YDAU

• When: 19 Nov YDAU — Fortier leaves the Antitoi shop ahead of the incoming snowstorm
• What: As the A.F.R. escalates to acquiring "members of the immediate family of the auteur," the cell's priorities split: Marathe is left to run the E.T.A.-side preliminary (the Québec junior-team interception), because "a technical interview of more importance was to be conducted in the city Phoenix far across the U.S. to the south" — and Fortier "departed before incoming weather to attend Mlle. Luria P——in this conducting." The syntax is the attestation: the interview is Luria's to conduct; the A.F.R.'s leader travels to attend her in it. Ranked against everything else the cell is doing — the Entertainment field-tests, the E.T.A. operation — the Phoenix interview she is preparing is "of more importance." The Subject is not named here; scene 184 supplies the strong retrospective implication that it is Orin.