The Raquel Welch mask speaker at White Flag (pp. 370–371)
the biological daughter had, from birth, been totally paralyzed and retarded and catatonic, and the foster mother in the household was—as Joelle V. put it later to Gately—crazy as a Fucking Mud-Bug, and was in total Denial about her biological daughter’s being a vegetable, and not only insisted on treating the invertebrate biological daughter like a valid member of the chordate phylum but also insisted that the father and the adopted daughter also treat It as normal and undamaged, and made the adopted daughter share a bedroom with It, bring It along to slumber parties (the speaker uses the term It for the invertebrate sister, and also to tell the truth uses the phrase ‘drag It along’ rather than ‘bring It along,’ which Gately wisely doesn’t dwell over)
Context
The hard-faced stripper's testimony introduces "It," and the pronoun does the theme's work by itself: a damaged body stripped of personhood twice over — by the mother's Denial (Its damage cannot be seen) and by the speaker's own grammar (It is a thing one drags). The parenthetical catching "drag It along" is the narrator catching the speaker's mask slipping.