V-2nd C4 The Search for Bridey Murphy / corrigenda

[Michael Bailey]

or, a lot less tortuously:

Stencil traces out scenarios in past times, in exotic locales, with
people he's never met.
His anecdotes each contain a plethora of fascinating detail, at least
one moral lesson, dovetail
at multiple junctures, and, well,
are pretty darn cool.

Using this methodology, but applying it to the present, here, and
people we know...
we can examine with an axial tomography (an AT scan, it being 1955 and
too early
for Computerized Axial Tomography) Esther's nose job as if it were
a lesion, or suspected or possible lesion, and the area around it --
non-destructively...this is a major advancement (though an incremental one,
perhaps, rather than a quantum leap...) from the cross-sections, slides,
slide covers and microscopes of modernism...perhaps...right?

>
> --- and if the bouncing into this scenario can be said to proceed from
> something in Chapter 3, as in, maybe, contiguity or juxtaposition to
> the Stencil material
> does in fact bespeak a relationship amongst the activities and if so
> it would be thaaaat... umm, the temptation is strong to parrot RA
> Wilson's commentary on Ulysses ("even a relatively boring life can be
> examined in a fascinating way" or words to sort of that effect) with
> something like, with the fancy-free attention to detail that Stencil
> applies to his imaginary scenarios let us now examine a modern-day
> instance where we may illuminate hitherto unexamined lives and make
> them interesting, and as a side effect, possibly make them (even if
> only a bit, but maybe more, one hopes) more or closer to worth
> living...