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[capitalization]
No discernible pattern?

Uncapitalised nouns in the first paragraph include: shoes, slaps, afternoon, raer, years, table, side-benches, branch, family.

Capitalised abstract nouns include: Arcs, Sides, Descent, Dither, Fly.

Nerve-Lines
If this is meant to imply branching dendrites, it's anachronistic.

Distance to a Star
Not until 1838.

Boppo
Not in OED.

Tenebrae
Darkness (Latin).

size and difficulty
Cf "Lot 49"?

Secret Relation
His journal?

my name had never been my own
???