recorrecting

The antennae weaving sensitively around and touching on hair-fine contacts, correcting and recorrecting the plan of approach, the conscious and sub-conscious gathering and relating of random data, computing, presenting, counselling telling me whether to cross over there and walk in now or wait another ten minutes or another sixty, whether to give the clockmaker Benedikt's name and assess his reaction or try one of a dozen other gambits that would leave us both with a way out if there were people there and it was dangerous.

The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968