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J.O.I.'s filmography (p. 986)

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Child-sized but severely palsied hand turns pages of incunabular manuscripts in mathematics, alchemy, religion, and bogus political autobiography, each page comprising some articulation or defense of intolerance and hatred.

Context

Dark Logics, a B.S.-era silent whose entire visual apparatus is one damaged hand — "[c]hild-sized but severely palsied," reading as Mario's years before Mario is born, as if the body preceded the child in Himself's imagination; and the filmography's first pairing of physical deformity with moral content.

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