Urine day
His smile, below the Bolex camera strapped to his large but sort of withered-looking head, is constant and broad as he films the line’s serpentine movement against glass shelves full of prizes.
Context
Quarterly urine-test day, Mario filming Pemulis's clean-urine vending operation: the body at work — "too physically challenged even to play low-level recreational tennis" (p. 153), he films by strap-mounted camera, police-lock, and foot-treadle. The institution has engineered him a function out of the deformity rather than around it, and the constant broad smile under the strapped-on Bolex is the scene's quiet answer to the U.H.I.D. shame economy.