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Marathe in the Ennet House waiting room (pp. 735–736)

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‘Physically challenged foreign person with unpronounceable name!’ the authority called with the clipboard.

Context

How the institution summons Marathe from the Office door: euphemism as public address. The sensitivity-speak bellowed across a crowded room is exactly the disguised American contempt Fortier anatomized — the label that pretends not to see the body while making it the loudest thing in the room. Marathe, of course, engineered the whole misreading.

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