hiding openly; the wish to be only a voice · S2
you pray for a power failure and for this kind of utter liberating equalizing darkness to descend so you can be reduced to nothing but a voice among other voices, invisible, equal, no different, hidden
Context
Joelle lays out concealment as a communicative stance rather than an absence of one: the veil doesn't stop her transmitting, it declares the wish to be received without the face, "reduced to nothing but a voice among other voices" — which is precisely her radio persona, and precisely the connection the book keeps saying the face defeats. And the doctrine's real subject is recursion: not hiding but the shame about hiding, the hiding of the hiding, contact organized entirely around what must not be shown.