Lenz kills the Nucks' dog (p. 575)
Lenz details how the vegetarian new Joel girl’s veil is because of this condition people get where she’s got only one eye that’s right in the middle of her forehead, from birth, like a seahorse, and asks Green not even to think of asking how he knows this fact.
Context
The veil generating invented-deformity folklore in real time: days into Joelle's residency, Lenz is already retailing a confident cyclopia diagnosis to Bruce Green — concealment read as a blank check for the grotesque imagination, which is U.H.I.D.'s whole gamble stated as street comedy. (An uncatalogued find batch 11 made in passing; verified against the raw at assembly.)