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The Madame Psychosis show (p. 189)

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Her voice itself is sparely modulated and strangely empty, as if she were speaking from inside a small box. It’s not bored or laconic or ironic or tongue-in-cheek. […] It’s reflective but not judgmental, somehow.

Context

The famous description of the Madame Psychosis voice: empty, boxed, "reflective" — mirror vocabulary smuggled into an acoustic portrait. Carlisle appends "(a cage?)" to the small box, pre-linking the voice to the Cage III / exhibit-and-cage figure Joelle herself reaches for in 058.

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