Molly Notkin spills everything — "That, despite the little rotter’s professions…"

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—That, despite the little rotter’s professions of self-recrimination for allowing the deformity to take place and claim that the swirling systems of guilt and horror and denial-informed forgiveness made a committed relationship with Madame Psychosis increasingly untenable, it didn’t take an expert in character-disorders and weaknesses to figure out why the fellow’d given Madame Psychosis the boot within months of the traumatic deformity, now did it.

Context

Orin's exit, per Notkin: whatever the stated psychology, he left within months of the deformity — the beautiful-Subjects man unable to stay with a damaged face. Against Marathe's chosen Gertraude, the theme's negative case: love contingent on the body, withdrawn when the body changes.

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In anthology

Disability and Deformitytexture