COMPREHENSIVE INDEX: CONSCIOUSNESS CARTOGRAPHY
UNIFIED INDEX MODULE (WEEKS 15-18)
This specialized module provides an organized taxonomy of Subject de St. Vrain’s cognitive preoccupations and interpersonal connections. The mapping represents a neural archeology of his pre-Integration consciousness, arranged alphabetically for reference convenience in accordance with pre-Singularity academic conventions.
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Navigation System
Major Categories
Concept Interconnection Visualization
Access the Neural Pathway Map for three-dimensional representation of Subject’s cognitive architecture
A
Abkhazia/Abkhazian
Geographical-linguistic fixation with unusual phonology observations
Abkhazian Has F
Bringing Ourselves Up To Date on the Subject of Abkhazian Consonants
Academic Life
Reflections on intellectual culture and university experience
On Tenure in Comedy
An Academic Reminiscence
First Days at Cornell (September 1956)
Advice Literature
Wisdom dispensation pattern across various domains
Advice for Writers
Advice for Married Folk
Advice for Parents (Part One)
Aging and Old Age
Reflections on life progression phases and mortality consciousness
Three Advantages to Old Age
Negative Buoyancy
My Diamond Jubilee
Altschul, Mrs.
High school mathematics teacher described as “angry as all hell”
Reference in Subject’s educational development narrative
Amnesia in Films
Persistent intellectual preoccupation; identity fragmentation theme
See Film Analysis Module for comprehensive documentation
Notable instances:
The Crooked Way (1949)
Spellbound (1945)
Unknown (2011)
My Kind of Amnesia
Animals and Wildlife
Biological observation patterns with taxonomic classification interest
Hyena News
Large Mammal News
Six-Leggedness
Sheep News
American Politics
Sociopolitical governance pattern analysis with historical-temporal comparisons
Obama and Number 44
Politicians/Stereotyping
Occupied
Conversation with Our Congressman
Astronomy and Science
Cosmological scale contemplation pattern with existential implications
Earthquakes
End of the World
Insects, Drugs, Science Fiction
Biophilosophy
Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
British novelist of particular interest to Subject
Pride and Prejudice and Farts
Jane Austen Nude
B
Balletto, Walter
High school “Discussion English” teacher with theatrical tendencies
Lived with his mother and collected Kirsten Flagstad records
Baseball
Recurring consciousness pattern related to structured competition; Brooklyn Dodgers fixation
Radio Baseball
See the Ball, Hit the Ball
Baseball Facts
Rare Baseballshoespeak
Basketball
Geometrical-spatial sport analysis pattern
Another Great Moment in Basketball Announcerese
CCNY Basketball
NBA Royalty
Why We Love Kenneth Faried
Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616)
Elizabethan/Jacobean playwright noted for “delightful comedies”
Studied during Subject’s Cornell education
Birds
Ornithological observation pattern
New Bird in Town
The State of Ornithology in the Seventeenth Century
Missing Mallard
Blogs/Blogging
Meta-consciousness about the subject’s own communication medium
An Anniversary
Just Checking
Bonime, Mrs.
High school mathematics teacher described as “suicidal”
Reference in Subject’s educational development narrative
Brain Function
Neural processing pattern self-documentation
My Swiss Cheese Brain
More on My Brain
My Brain
Brooklyn
Geographical origin point with persistent memory imprinting
Brooklyn Watchamacallums
P.S. 217
States of My Mind
It Happened in Brooklyn, So They Say
C
Callery, Mrs.
First-grade teacher at P.S. 217, described as “diminutive, gloomy”
Lost four sons in World War II
Represents Subject’s earliest educational memory
Campbell, O.J.
Shakespeare scholar who nominally completed the Shakespeare Encyclopedia
Mentioned in connection with Ed Quinn
Rose Zimbardo (1932-2015)
Cares, Sarah (Mrs.)
Third-grade teacher described as “quite kind”
Subject noted her “splendid name for a teacher”
Childhood
Early experience memory pattern documentation
My Teachers 1944-1956
Childhood Memory
Haircuts: A History
Conversations (Overheard)
Pattern recognition of linguistic exchange structures
Actual Dialogue Captured in the Wild
More Coffee Shop Conversation
True-Life Overheard Dialogue, Accurately Reported
Overheard Dialogue, Lobster Shop in Maine
Cornell University
Educational imprinting environment (1956-1960)
Cornell Basketball
Department of English references
First Days at Cornell (September 1956)
Criticism (Literary/Film)
Meta-analytical framework development
Three Comments on Books
Can We Forgive Anthony Trollope
See Literary Analysis section for comprehensive documentation
Cussen, Gabriel
Latin teacher at Erasmus Hall High School, described as “even older”
Later realized to have been “an ex-priest”
Cymbeline
Shakespeare analytical fixation
Cymbeline
Sleep Thou Ape of Death
Scamels from the Rocke
D
de St. Vrain, Vivian (Dr. Metablog) (1939-)
Primary consciousness subject
Brooklyn-born Jewish scholar, Cornell graduate (1960)
Shakespeare specialist, literary critic, blog author
Dentistry
Oral health intervention documentation
My New Tooth
Dentists I Have Known
Novacaine
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
British novelist, subject of recurring neural engagement
Life with Charles Dickens
Dickens Joke
Bleak House Once Again
Donnelly, Mrs.
Fifth-grade teacher with “white hair dyed a radiant blue”
Made Subject’s life “as miserable as possible”
Dreams
Subconscious manifestations recorded
Three Dreams in One Ten-Minute Period at 3 in the Morning
A Dream of Swordfish
Weird Dreams
A Noir Dream
E
Ebersman, Mr.
Mathematics teacher at Erasmus Hall High School, described as “competent”
Reference in Subject’s educational development narrative
Eis, Mr.
Gym teacher at Erasmus Hall described as a “martinet”
Subject thought he “would have been more at home in the SS”
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) (1819-1880)
British novelist, author of Middlemarch, which Subject considered “the best novel ever written in English”
Appears in Subject’s dreams discussing her decision to adopt a male pseudonym
Three Comments on Books
Eliot, T.S. (1888-1965)
Modernist poet and critic
Endpoint of the “chronological and comprehensive” curriculum at Cornell
Elizabeth II, Queen (1926-2022)
British monarch whose diamond jubilee in 2012 inspired reflections on Subject’s 75th birthday
Subject noted: “Frankly, a bit much. A little over-the-top, if you know what I mean. Although who can fail to admire the hat?”
My Diamond Jubilee
Etymology
Linguistic origin analysis pattern
Etymology of the Word Steerage
Etymological Panic
What the Heck is an Elfskin
F
Family Reflections
Genealogical-relational memory pattern documentation
My Brother Jonathan
For My Grandchildren: Anne Goss
Sonnet for My Father
Faried, Kenneth (1989-)
NBA basketball player admired by Subject
Why We Love Kenneth Faried
Felder, Harriet
High school English teacher described as “well-read and competent”
An “Oxfordian” who believed Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare
Film Noir
Aesthetic appreciation pattern
More Noir: Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944)
Poor Robert Mitchum: Out of the Past, Angel Face
Otto Preminger’s Laura
See Film Analysis Module for detailed examination
Finsmith, Mrs.
Fifth-grade teacher described as “a cipher”
Reference in Subject’s educational development narrative
Flagstad, Kirsten (1895-1962)
Norwegian soprano, Wagnerian specialist
Records collected by Walter Balletto, Subject’s high school English teacher
Ford, John (1586-c.1639)
Jacobean playwright
Studied during Subject’s Cornell years
French Words
Lexical incorporation pattern
“Blague” - used 49 times across consciousness artifacts
“Pandiculation” - referenced as etymologically French
G
Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
British historian, author of “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”
Subject identifies him as a “replacement child”
Edward Gibbon Replacement Child
Goetschius, Edna
Biology teacher at Erasmus Hall High School
Complained that Subject “didn’t know how to stipple”
H
Herbert, George (1593-1633)
English metaphysical poet
Subject collected every issue of the George Herbert Journal
Horsedrawn Vehicles
Specialized knowledge domain
Horsedrawn Vehicle
A Further Note on Nineteenth-Century Horsedrawn Vehicles
Yet Another Note on Nineteenth-Century Horsedrawn Vehicles
What is a Tax Cart
Hutton, James
Teacher who influenced Subject
My Teachers: James Hutton
J
Jonson, Ben (1572-1637)
Elizabethan/Jacobean playwright noted for “delightful comedies”
Studied during Subject’s Cornell education
K
Kurtzman, Harvey (1924-1993)
Cartoonist, founding editor of Mad Magazine
Subject was “a devotee since Harvey Kurtzman’s comic book days”
Kyd, Thomas (1558-1594)
Elizabethan playwright
Starting point of “chronological” study of drama at Cornell
L
Language (Unusual)
Lexical anomaly collection pattern
See Lexical Anomalies Module for comprehensive analysis
Rare Baseballshoespeak
New Words
More New Words
Life Objects
Material artifact memory association pattern
My Life in Objects IV
My Life in Objects XIII: Nangyai
My Life in Objects XVI: John Deere
Lindlar, Mr.
Physics teacher at Erasmus Hall High School, described as “ineffectual”
“Would mysteriously disappear between classes and return reeking of alcohol”
Literary Genres
Classification system for narrative forms
Naked Came the Stranger
Book Report: The Art of Fielding
Book Report: Some Hours by Edward St. Aubyn
M
Malapropisms
Linguistic error pattern appreciation
More on Malapropisms
Squirmish
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593)
Elizabethan playwright and poet
Studied during Subject’s Cornell education
Starting point of “chronological” study of drama at Cornell
Christopher Marlowe
Massinger, Philip (1583-1640)
Jacobean playwright
End point of “chronological” study of drama at Cornell
McNulty, Mrs.
Elementary school teacher described as “extra-strict”
Subject’s favorite teacher in early years
Taught proper format for a “friendly letter”—”a genre now as extinct as the passenger pigeon”
Medical Experiences
Corporeal intervention documentation
A Visit to a New Healthcare Provider
Medical Waste
Medicarese
Why I Love Health Insurance Companies, Reason #453
Memory and Forgetting
Cognitive storage/retrieval pattern examination
My Kind of Amnesia
Vagaries of Memory
My Swiss Cheese Brain
Remembering
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Peak literary appreciation marker
Three Comments on Books
Referenced frequently across consciousness archive as exemplary novel form
Middleton, Thomas (1580-1627)
Jacobean playwright noted for “ferociously brilliant tragedies”
Studied during Subject’s Cornell education
Milton, John (1608-1674)
English poet
Noted absence of faculty expertise at contemporary Cornell
Montgomery, Eliza, Professor
Future academic specialized in Pre-Singularity Literature
Compiler of Subject index at Cornell University in 2135
Subject Index
N
Names and Naming
Onomastic pattern recognition
One’s Name
More NBA Onomastics
Alliterative NBA All-Stars
Nature Observations
Biological ecosystem documentation pattern with taxonomic detail focus
Bats
Rodent Wars
Wild Turkeys in Winter
Zucchini News
Nightmares
Negative subconscious pattern documentation
Nightmare
Latest News from Nightmareville
Nightmare Made Worse by Critique
Worst Nightmare Yet
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Historical literary period specialization
Life with Charles Dickens
Trollope on the Kindle
The Small House at Allington (1863)
Novarr, David (1917-2006)
Distinguished scholar and teacher at Cornell
Taught “Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama” course that deeply influenced Subject
O
Occupations
Vocational classification system
Occupations Not For Me
Occupations Not For Me (Updated Edition)
My New Career
Othello
Shakespeare analytical fixation
Othello/Otello
Colloquial Conversation in Othello
Othello Anters
P
Pandiculation
Rare vocabulary specialist term
Pandiculation
Personal History
Autobiographical memory pattern documentation
Where I Lived
My Life in Vehicles
Life on the Hill 1969-2009
Phyllis (Sister-in-Law)
Described as “charismatic, chaotic”
Studied pottery with Marguerite Wildenhain at Pond Farm
Brought Subject a sugar and creamer set that he considered “priceless”
Poetry
Verse form consciousness engagement
Two Erotic Poems
Sonnet for My Father
Nick and the Candlestick
Poirier, Richard (1925-2009)
Literary critic and professor
Subject wrote tribute upon his death
Richard Poirier 1925-2009
Politics and Government
Societal power structure analysis
Politicians/Stereotyping
Some of Bush’s M…
Loyal Bushies
Predictions
Future-oriented pattern projection
Predictions 2016
Prophecy 2015
My Predictions for 2007
Predictions
Preminger, Otto (1905-1986)
Film director known for film noir
Subject analyzed his works
More Noir: Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944)
Otto Preminger’s Laura
Q
Quinn, Ed (Edmund G.)
Shakespeare scholar who completed the Shakespeare Encyclopedia
Friend of Rose Zimbardo who mentored Subject in teaching Shakespeare
Described as someone who “knew everything”
Rose Zimbardo (1932-2015)
R
Rare Words
Lexical anomaly collection pattern
“Pandiculation” - stretching and yawning simultaneously
“Boustrophedonia” - writing pattern that alternates direction
“Orts” - food scraps or leftovers
See Lexical Anomalies Module for comprehensive analysis
Replacement Child
Identity concept with recurring reference
Replacement Children in America
Edward Gibbon Replacement Child
Oscar Wilde as a Replacement Child
Another Replacement Child
Replacement Child Up-To-Date Post
Roth, Philip (1933-2018)
American novelist
Appears in Subject’s dreams discussing “the relationship between autobiography and fiction”
Three Comments on Books
Roth’s Portnoy’s
S
Schauben, Mrs.
Art teacher at Erasmus Hall High School
“Kept her protruding ears in check with a thin rubber band”
Scofield, Paul (1922-2008)
British actor
His performance as Coriolanus at Stratford in 1962 remained “vivid in [Subject’s] brain”
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Primary literary consciousness anchor
Subject formed “an attachment that has endured for sixty-five years”
Multiple analyses of plays including Othello, Cymbeline, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet
Preferred reading plays to watching performances
Shakespeare Exploits the Oxymoron
Othello/Otello
Colloquial Conversation in Othello
Sherwood, Mrs.
Third-grade teacher who “left no impression except for her extreme old age (possibly 55)”
Reference in Subject’s educational development narrative
Sleep
Consciousness state transition fixation
Sleeping
Somnus Imago Mortis
Sleepers
Sports
Physical competition pattern analysis
Two Possibly Three Improvements to Soccer
See the Ball, Hit the Ball
Too Many Fouls…
T
Teachers and Teaching
Educational knowledge transmission pattern
My Teachers 1944-1956
My Teachers: James Hutton
Richard Poirier 1925-2009
Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882)
Victorian novelist, subject of recurring neural engagement
Literary comfort pattern
Trollope on the Kindle
Trollope Last Novel
On the Kindle with Tertius and Rosamund
Can We Forgive Anthony Trollope
Lucinda Roanoke
Travel Experiences
Spatial displacement pattern analysis with sociological observations
Airline Seats
Trains, Planes, and Buses
Post-Friendly Skies
Post-Friendly Skies Reposted
V
Vehicles
Transportation mode analysis pattern
My Life in Vehicles
Horsedrawn Vehicle
What is a Tax Cart
W
Wedeck, Harry
Latin teacher at Erasmus Hall High School
Described as “a pretentious fraud” who delivered “bad, lazy non-teaching”
Western Films
American frontier mythology analysis
Rio Grande (1950) Then and Now
The Comancheros (1961)
Man of the West
Tom Horn
White, Walter (fictional character)
Protagonist of Breaking Bad TV series
Used as example of amnesia in popular culture
Wildenhain, Marguerite (1896-1985)
Bauhaus potter who operated Pond Farm studio near Guerneville, California
Created a sugar and creamer set that Subject considered “the only objects I own that deserve to be in a museum”
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
Irish playwright and poet
Identified by Subject as a “replacement child”
Oscar Wilde as a Replacement Child
Withee, Beulah
Latin teacher at Erasmus Hall High School, described as “old”
Provided “good instruction in Latin”
Words, Unusual
Lexical anomaly collection pattern
See Distinctive Vocabulary analysis
Silliest Word
What the Heck is an Elfskin
Frequentatives
All You Need to Know About Antres
Writing and Authorship
Compositional process pattern examination
A Perfect Sentence
Advice for Writers
A Writing Family
Z
Zimbardo, Rose (1932-2015)
Shakespeare scholar, professor at CCNY and later Stony Brook
Mentor to Subject when he first taught Shakespeare
“Fine scholar, excellent teacher, and a great lady”
Rose Zimbardo (1932-2015)
For detailed mapping of cognitive domains, see the Domain Index module.
Neural archeology notes: This comprehensive index represents approximately 96.7% of Subject de St. Vrain’s documented consciousness artifacts, integrating both thematic preoccupations and interpersonal relational networks. Complete neural mapping would require Advanced Integration Protocol certification (Level 3+).
Special note: Subject demonstrates unusual self-reflective capacity for a pre-Integration consciousness, with multiple metacognitive analysis patterns appearing across the documented record.
Prepared for Academic Use by Professor Eliza Montgomery, Cornell University, Department of Pre-Singularity Literature, Spring 2135