Lenz's going-out apparatus
Lenz sets loafer one outside Ennet House only after sunset, and then only in his white toupee and mustache and billowing tall-collared topcoat, and goes only to the required nightly meetings
Context
Lenz runs a full field-protocol for a man no one is hunting. The disguise is fixed (white toupee, mustache, billowing topcoat), the movement disciplined (never before sunset), the cover-crowd deliberate (he won't drive his own car, always thumbs a ride "and adds to the crowd in their car"), and the heading obsessive — "he always has to sit in the northernmost seat in the car, for some reason, using a compass and napkin to plot out what the night's major direction of travel'll be." Abroad later "unaccompanied and disguised, apparently strolling," coat "flared wide, scanning," he has built the whole apparatus of an operative on the move: disguise, movement discipline, blending, counter-surveillance sweep. The parody is that it protects him from nothing but his own paranoia.