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The Madame Psychosis show — "The multiple amputee. The prosthetically malmatched…"

quote

‘The multiple amputee. The prosthetically malmatched. The snaggletoothed, wattled, weak-chinned, and walrus-cheeked. The palate-clefted. The really large-pored. The excessively but not necessarily lycanthropically hirsute. The pin-headed. The convulsively Tourettic. The Parkinsonianly tremulous. The stunted and gnarled. The teratoid of overall visage. The twisted and hunched and humped and halitotic. The in any way asymmetrical. The rodential- and saurian- and equine-looking.’

Context

The roll-call drifts into Mario's own dossier vocabulary — "stunted," "hunched," "saurian" (071 will diagnose him "withered saurian") — while he sits hunched at the speaker; "the palate-clefted" also pre-names the U.H.I.D. foundress of scene 060. The circular is quietly reading its listener.

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