The Madame Psychosis show (pp. 189–190)
‘The leukodermatic. The xanthodantic. The maxillofacially swollen. Those with distorted orbits of all kinds. Get out from under the sun’s cove-lighting is what this says. Come in from the spectral rain.’ […] ‘All ye peronic or teratoidal. The phrenologically malformed. The suppuratively lesioned. The endocrinologically malodorous of whatever ilk. Run don’t walk on down. The acervulus-nosed. The radically -ectomied. The morbidly diaphoretic with a hankie in every pocket. The chronically granulomatous. The ones it says here the ones the cruel call Two-Baggers—one bag for your head, one bag for the observer’s head in case your bag falls off. The hated and dateless and shunned, who keep to the shadows. Those who undress only in front of their pets. The quote aesthetically challenged. Leave your lazarettes and oubliettes, I’m reading this right here, your closets and cellars and TP Tableaux, find Nurturing and Support and the Inner Resources to face your own unblinking sight, is what this goes on to say, a bit overheatedly maybe. Is it our place to say. It says here Hugs Not Ughs. It says Come don the veil of the type and token. Come learn to love what’s hidden inside. To hold and cherish. The almost unbelievably thick-ankled. The kyphotic and lordotic. The irremediably cellulitic. It says Progress Not Perfection. It says Never Perfection. The fatally pulchritudinous: Welcome. The Actaeonizing, side by side with the Medusoid. The papuled, the macular, the albinic. Medusas and odalisques both: Come find common ground. All meeting rooms windowless. That’s in ital: all meeting rooms windowless.’
Context
The theme's founding document: Madame Psychosis reading the U.H.I.D. recruitment circular over the air, 22 Oct YDAU. "Come don the veil of the type and token" is the doctrine in one line — hide the token (this particular face) behind the type (a face, anyone's) and shame has nothing left to grip — and the circular explicitly seats deadly beauty beside deadly ugliness ("The fatally pulchritudinous: Welcome. The Actaeonizing, side by side with the Medusoid"), the exact undecidability Joelle's veil will sustain for the whole novel, in the language of JOI's own The Medusa v. the Odalisque. And the fellowship's architecture obeys the creed: all meeting rooms windowless, in ital.