the feral-hamster footnote: the state's voice as civil-defense brochure — "If American, north not advisable. Move…"
If American, north not advisable. Move south, calmly and in all haste, toward some border metropolis—Rome NNY or Glens Falls NNY or Beverly MA, say, or those bordered points between them at which the giant protective ATHSCME fans atop the hugely convex protective walls of anodized Lucite hold off the drooling and piss-colored bank of teratogenic Concavity clouds and move the bank well back, north, away, jaggedly, over your protected head.
Context
The polity's official voice reduced to survival-pamphlet prose: the Concavity is a place you flee, walled off by "the hugely convex protective walls of anodized Lucite" and the "giant protective ATHSCME fans" that shove "teratogenic Concavity clouds" back north over the border. The infrastructure of experialism (walls, fans, the convex barrier) is presented not as engineering but as the tone a state takes with citizens it has resettled — "If American, north not advisable" — the reconfigured territory administered in the register of a brochure. (The annular-fusion/overfertilization physics of the Concavity is annularity's; landed here is the border-wall/fan apparatus as political fact.)