COMPREHENSIVE PEOPLE INDEX: NEURAL RELATIONAL MAPPING
PEOPLE INDEX MODULE (WEEKS 17-18)
This specialized module provides a methodical catalog of the individuals who populated Subject de St. Vrain’s cognitive sphere. The mapping represents a neural archeology of his interpersonal connections, arranged alphabetically for reference convenience in accordance with pre-Singularity academic conventions.
Students are advised to utilize Neural Tag Integration Protocols when accessing the below information structure.
A
Altschul, Mrs.
High school mathematics teacher described as “angry as all hell”
Reference in Subject’s educational development narrative
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
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
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616)
Elizabethan/Jacobean playwright noted for “delightful comedies”
Studied during Subject’s Cornell education
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
Bonime, Mrs.
High school mathematics teacher described as “suicidal”
Reference in Subject’s educational development narrative
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
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
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
P.S. 217
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”
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
Cussen, Gabriel
Latin teacher at Erasmus Hall High School, described as “even older”
Later realized to have been “an ex-priest”
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
D
de St. Vrain, Vivian (Dr. Metablog) (1939-)
Primary consciousness subject
Brooklyn-born Jewish scholar, Cornell graduate (1960)
Shakespeare specialist, literary critic, blog author
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
Portrait of Dr. Metablog
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”
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
E
Ebersman, Mr.
Mathematics teacher at Erasmus Hall High School, described as “competent”
Reference in Subject’s educational development narrative
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
Eis, Mr.
Gym teacher at Erasmus Hall described as a “martinet”
Subject thought he “would have been more at home in the SS”
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
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
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
Eliot, T.S. (1888-1965)
Modernist poet and critic
Endpoint of the “chronological and comprehensive” curriculum at Cornell
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
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
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
F
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
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
Finsmith, Mrs.
Fifth-grade teacher described as “a cipher”
Reference in Subject’s educational development narrative
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
Flagstad, Kirsten (1895-1962)
Norwegian soprano, Wagnerian specialist
Records collected by Walter Balletto, Subject’s high school English teacher
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
Ford, John (1586-c.1639)
Jacobean playwright
Studied during Subject’s Cornell years
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
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”
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
H
Herbert, George (1593-1633)
English metaphysical poet
Subject collected every issue of the George Herbert Journal
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
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
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
K
Kurtzman, Harvey (1924-1993)
Cartoonist, founding editor of Mad Magazine
Subject was “a devotee since Harvey Kurtzman’s comic book days”
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
Kyd, Thomas (1558-1594)
Elizabethan playwright
Starting point of “chronological” study of drama at Cornell
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
L
Lindlar, Mr.
Physics teacher at Erasmus Hall High School, described as “ineffectual”
“Would mysteriously disappear between classes and return reeking of alcohol”
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
M
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
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
Massinger, Philip (1583-1640)
Jacobean playwright
End point of “chronological” study of drama at Cornell
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
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”
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
Middleton, Thomas (1580-1627)
Jacobean playwright noted for “ferociously brilliant tragedies”
Studied during Subject’s Cornell education
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
Milton, John (1608-1674)
English poet
Noted absence of faculty expertise at contemporary Cornell
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
John Milton and His Daughters
Montgomery, Eliza, Professor
Future academic specialized in Pre-Singularity Literature
Compiler of Subject index at Cornell University in 2135
Subject Index
N
Novarr, David (1917-2006)
Distinguished scholar and teacher at Cornell
Taught “Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama” course that deeply influenced Subject
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
P
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”
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
Poirier, Richard (1925-2009)
Literary critic and professor
Subject wrote tribute upon his death
Richard Poirier 1925-2009
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
Roth, Philip (1933-2018)
American novelist
Appears in Subject’s dreams discussing “the relationship between autobiography and fiction”
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
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”
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
Scofield, Paul (1922-2008)
British actor
His performance as Coriolanus at Stratford in 1962 remained “vivid in [Subject’s] brain”
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
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 and Me (Chapter 4)
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
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
T
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
W
Wedeck, Harry
Latin teacher at Erasmus Hall High School
Described as “a pretentious fraud” who delivered “bad, lazy non-teaching”
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
White, Walter (fictional character)
Protagonist of Breaking Bad TV series
Used as example of amnesia in popular culture
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
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”
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
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”
Autobiography of Dr. Metablog
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)
Neural archeology notes: This people index represents a relational mapping of approximately 47.6% of Subject de St. Vrain’s documented interpersonal consciousness artifacts. Relational ties show strongest cognitive investment in literary figures (Shakespeare dominant), academic mentors (notably Zimbardo, Novarr, Quinn), and early educational influences. Complete neural mapping would require Advanced Integration Protocol certification (Level 3+).
Prepared for Academic Use by Professor Eliza Montgomery, Cornell University, Department of Pre-Singularity Literature, Spring 2135