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Lenz stalks the Chinese women (p. 717)

quote

he’d given it his best, and for the most part impressively; and he had been sent Away, Alone, and at least now could openly hide. R. Lenz lived by his wits out here, deeply disguised, on the amonymous streets of N. Cambridge and Somerville, never sleeping, ever moving, hiding in bright-lit and public plain sight, the last place They would think to find him.

Context

Carlisle reads "openly hide" as analogous to U.H.I.D.: the veil doctrine of hiding in open sight, debased into a paranoid's costume — no deformity anywhere on stage, so the passage touches the theme only through his analogy. Recorded, not adopted. ("[A]monymous" as written — Lenz's idiom.)

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