the Separatism seminar: the deformities as political grievance
It’s mostly now western Québecer kids the size of Volkswagens shlumpfing around with no skulls. It’s Québecers with cloracne and tremors and olfactory hallucinations and infants born with just one eye in the middle of their forehead.
Context
The Concavity's toxicity itemized as Québec's grievance, not as spectacle: "western Québecer kids the size of Volkswagens... with no skulls," "Québecers with cloracne and tremors... and infants born with just one eye in the middle of their forehead," "feral-hamster incursions and the Infant-depredations and the corrosive fogs." "Small wonder the fringe mentalities are violently anti-O.N.A.N. up there. There's got to be a real straw-and-camel feel." The deformed bodies are marshaled here as the political case: proportionally "it's Québec that's borne the brunt of what Canada had to take." (The births-as-deformity are disability-deformity's; landed here is the grievance-politics they fund.)