The Concavity cabinet and the Clipperton legend (p. 407)
this whole parodic pseudo-ONANtiad scenario is actually a puppet-à-clef-type allusion to the dark legend of one Eric Clipperton and the Clipperton Brigade. […] He’d just sort of seepily risen, some sort of human radon, from someplace low and unknown, whence he lent the cliché ‘Win or Die in the Attempt’ grotesquely literal new levels of sense.
Context
The Deformity motif's anchor sentence for the Clipperton legend: "dark legend" plus the grotesque-literal reading of a sports cliché. The legend's body-substance is the Mario tableau at p. 410 (supporting); the suicide tail is scene 089.