Mario's romantic experience with Millicent Kent — "In the dining room he’d moved…"
In the dining room he’d moved all the furniture over to the side of, in front of the really wide mirror, in a grotesquely tiny and bulging violet leotard, capering. […] Obscene mottled hirsute flesh had pooched and spilled out over every centimeter of the leotard’s perimeter, she recalled.
Context
Kent's grotesque-comic family history, confided at the uncomprehending Mario: body-grotesque at the theme's edge rather than disability proper — filed because the archive's motif catalog files it under Deformity/the grotesque; the scene's real theme work is Mario's.