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The Raquel Welch mask speaker at White Flag (p. 373)

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also required daily that It be hoisted by the adopted daughter from Its never-mentioned wheelchair and held under Its arms and lowered so as to approximate the same knelt devotion to the photo, and while It gurgled and Its head lolled the speaker had gazed at the photo with a nameless revulsion each morning

Context

"Its never-mentioned wheelchair" — even the apparatus is under the household gag order. Carlisle files It in one disability constellation across the book: catatonic like Unit #5's warehoused bodies, wheelchaired like Marathe — damaged bodies positioned, hoisted, and arranged by others for the arrangers' purposes, abuse-victim and assassin on the same axis.

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