Joelle's last walk (pp. 220–221)
She and poor Molly Notkin are just the same, Joelle reflects, seated alone, watching doctoral candidates taste wine—sisters, sororal twins. With her fear of direct light, Notkin. And the disguises and whiskers are simply veiled veils. […] The whole and the partial. The damaged and the intact. The deformed and the paralyzingly beautiful. The insane and the attendant. The hidden and the blindingly open. The performer and the audience. No Zen-type One, always rather Two, one upside-down in a convex lens.
Context
Joelle's metaphysics of Two, thought through the veil: all difference descends from paired opposites, and the pair that matters here — "The deformed and the paralyzingly beautiful" — states the veil's two candidate contents as a single dyad. The book never resolves which side of it she's on; this passage is why it doesn't have to.