DMZ show-and-tell

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Pemulis looks all around behind them in the empty room. ‘This, Incster, Axhandle, is the incredibly potent DMZ. The Great White Shark of organo-synthesized hallucinogens. ‘The gargantuan feral infant of—’ Hal says ‘We get the picture.’

Context

The Concavity's deformed-birth legend so canonical it works as drug hype: a teenager reaches for "the gargantuan feral infant" right after "Great White Shark" and gets cut off because everybody already gets the picture — the lore as dead metaphor.

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In anthology

Disability and Deformitytexture