Molly Notkin's party: Joelle's overdose — "Joelle applauds the Xtatic woman as…"
Joelle applauds the Xtatic woman as well, because they are, Joelle admits freely, the paps, they are attractive, which in the Union is designated Compelling Within Compatible Relative Limits; Joelle has no problem seeing beauty approved, within compatible relative limits
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U.H.I.D. ("the Union") turns out to have institutional jargon even for beauty: attractiveness as a regulated quantity with "Compatible Relative Limits." The doctrine treats deformity and gorgeousness as the same kind of administrative fact — exactly the both-ways ambiguity the book maintains about Joelle's own face.