Joelle's walk and the U.H.I.D. card (pp. 226–227)
She reflected that the anecdote had gotten about, but not the incident’s legacy, she said, as if that part were hidden. […] The laminated non-photo U.H.I.D. membership card Joelle showed the interested old black gentleman related all this data and more in a point-size so tiny the card looked somehow both blank and defaced.
Context
The U.H.I.D. founding legend as institutional memory: the Churchill anecdote survives in circulation while "the incident's legacy" stays hidden, and the whole history is carried as a document — laminated, complete, and printed too small to read. The record exists precisely so it need not be legible; the card does for the Union's past what the veil does for the face.