Marathe and Steeply: the soup installment — "The received wisdom among Québecois anti-O.N.A.N…"
The received wisdom among Québecois anti-O.N.A.N. cells was that there was something latent and sadistic in the Bureau des Services sans Spécificité’s assignments of fictional personae for its field-operatives—casting men as women, women as longshoremen or Orthodox rabbinicals, heterosexual men as homosexual men, Caucasians as Negroes or caricaturesque Haitians and Dominicans, healthy males as degenerative-nerve-disease-sufferers, healthy women operatives as hydrocephalic boys or epileptic public-relations executives, nondeformed U.S.O.U.S. personnel made not only to pretend but sometimes to actually suffer actual deformity, all for the realism of their field-personae.
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Same page, the feet widening out into doctrine — the A.F.R.'s read on U.S.O.U.S.: the Office assigns deformity and disability as costume, up to and including making agents "actually suffer actual deformity" for realism. Bodies damaged on purpose, by an institution, for cover — sitting exactly between the A.F.R.'s own chosen leglessness and Joelle's veil.