The A.F.R.'s mirror-ambush plan
for one of the newly acquired test-subjects […] was discovered to have been being severing and pushing beneath the room of storage’s closed door the severed digits of the second of the newly acquired test-subjects […] rather than his own digits, marring the statistics of Brullîme’s field-experiment
Context
The Entertainment field-tests measure viewer willingness in self-severed fingers — the A.F.R.'s own initiation economics (willingness proved on the body) applied to captive subjects. The horror-comic data-corruption: the wigged subject (Lenz) has been amputating and submitting the other subject's (Poor Tony's) digits instead of his own. The body as currency, counterfeit included. ("Brullîme" is as the text has it — a possible edition variant.)