WORKING TERMS: THE INDEX (OF INCOMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS)
Filed in No Order, Signed by No One, Circulated as Truth Anyway
What follows is not a guide, not precisely. It is not chronological, reliable, or complete. Each entry herein has been flagged at some point by a supervisor, forgotten by a mentor, or filed under “ongoing performance concern” by an algorithm wearing a lanyard. Together, they form a kind of x-ray of the soul as processed through orientation modules, ill-fitting scrubs, and the humming warmth of the breakroom fridge, which, we now know, is not cooling anything.
This index is not searchable. It is not definitive. It is not even strictly accurate. But it is, for better or worse, what’s left.
Please proceed alphabetically, or spiritually, whichever seems less dangerous.
INDEX:
THE ROUNDS: In Which Elias Rigg Performs Vitals on a Man Who Is Already Dead
A DIGRESSION ON THE EDUCATION AND FORGING OF ONE ELIAS RIGG: Being a Recollection of How One Becomes Entrusted with Latex Gloves, Thermometers, and the Hourly Intimacy of Strangers
THE MAZE AND THE GHOSTS: Being an Orientation Manual for the Unoriented Idiot, in Which Elias Learns the Hospital Was Never Meant to Be Escaped
THE ROUNDS REDUX: In Which Elias Encounters the Eyewitness, the Twitch, and the Judgement of the Clipboard
THE EDUCATION OF ELIAS RIGG, CONTINUED: In Which Elias Quietly Begins to Chart Everything That Cannot Be Measured
THE REVIEW WINDOW: In Which Morleen Trapp Reviews the Notes and Finds No Errors, Only a Voice
THE TOUCHPOINT STRATEGIST: In Which a Corporate Consultant Encounters an Unknown Voice in the System and Mistakes It for a Revelation
THE WALK-AND-TALK: In Which Morleen Trapp Attempts a Soft Confrontation, and Elias Performs a Performance He No Longer Recognizes as Performance
THE FIRST STRANGE NOTE: In Which Elias Writes a Simple Entry That Accidentally Becomes Literature, or Maybe a Manifesto
THE GATHERING OF THE RESENTFUL: In Which Elias Rigg Is Not Confronted So Much as Circled, Laughed At, and Accidentally Elevated Again
THE RIGG ROUNDTABLE (PRE-PRODUCTION NOTES): In Which Lucinda Quell Attempts to Orchestrate an Institutional Empathy Spectacle Starring a Man Who Has Never Volunteered
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