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Madame Psychosis's radio show (pp. 182–183)

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She is hidden from all view by a jointed trip-tych screen of cream chiffon

Context

Concealment maintained even inside her own workplace, as a one-way arrangement. Madame Psychosis works the whole hour an arm's length from the engineer and is "hidden from all view by a jointed trip-tych screen of cream chiffon," present only as "a silhouette… cleanly limned against the screen," and "[t]he student engineer has never once seen Madame Psychosis enter or leave WYYY." She broadcasts to thousands while remaining invisible to the one man beside her: the screen is an operational veil, a device that lets its wearer see and speak out while being seen by no one — the exact one-way-mirror logic Marathe's U.H.I.D. veil weaponizes at Ennet House (149), here built into radio architecture. (The voice-as-veil / radio-aesthetics half is film-optics'; this is the concealment mechanics.)

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