Disenrollment and cheerful illiteracy; the fanatical listener

texture · ~Dec YWQMD 2006; ongoing

• When: Disenrolled "three years ago December" (~Dec YWQMD 2006); the listening habit ongoing.
• What: Mario was asked to disenroll from the Winter Hill Special School for "cheerfully declining even to try to learn to really read," saying he'd "way rather listen and watch"; a fanatical listener/observer, he has since sat in on a back-row stool for every E.T.A. Entertainment Dept. offering and listens to the HmH tuner head-cocked, volume very low out of consideration for Avril's fantods about disembodied voices.