Orin's survey from the wheelchair man (p. 601)
The skyscraper-gawking aspect was only when the man’s gaze went higher than Orin’s neck. They were not shy or indirect or even the eyes of someone in any way disabled, was what struck Orin later as odd—besides the Swiss accent, the absence of a signature-ruse, the Subject’s patience with the wait and the absence of gasping when O. pulled the covers abruptly back, later.
Context
The scene's retrospective tell: the eyes were wrong — nothing shy, indirect, "or even the eyes of someone in any way disabled." The sentence splits the real body (the man genuinely is legless) from the performance of disability layered over it: the A.F.R.'s doubleness compressed into one clause. Disability as fact and disability as mask, held apart for one beat.