Orin's interview with Steeply (pp. 1041–1042)
You should see yourself in this light. Fluorescence isn’t kind to most women. It must take an exceptional kind—
Context
Orin working the interviewer mid-deposition, and the pickup line is lighting-appraisal: fluorescence as an aesthetic regime that most faces fail. The family fluorescence thread (Québec's ban in n020; 147's four-character ethnic-Canadian aversion tell) runs adjacent, but Orin's line is connoisseurship rather than aversion — the half-Canadian son grades the light instead of fleeing it. Connection observed, not asserted.