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Mario's birth and body (p. 316)

quote

Mario sometimes finds younger E.T.A.s referred to him by Lyle on really ticklish matters of injury and incapacity and character and rallying-what-remains, and never much knows what to say. […] Players at Denny’s, when they all get to go to Denny’s, almost vie to see who gets to cut up the cutupable parts of Mario’s under-12-size Kilobreakfast.

Context

The community's absorption of the disability into ordinary logistics: Lyle routes the academy's incapacity counseling to the disabled kid, and at Denny's the players compete for the privilege of cutting his food — help as status, not charity.

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