the DMZ afternoon: the Vaughts, banned from Singles
O.N.A.N.’s top-ranked junior women’s doubles team, unbeaten in three years, an unbeatable duo, uncanny in their cooperation on the court, moving as One at all times, playing not just as if but in fact because they shared a brain, or at least the psychomotor lobes of one, the twins Siamese, fused at the left and right temple, banned from Singles by O.N.A.N. regs
Context
The governance machinery legislating the athletic body directly, the 057 pickup routed here from n-o: the Vaught twins are "O.N.A.N.'s top-ranked junior women's doubles team," unbeatable "because they shared a brain, or at least the psychomotor lobes of one," and are "banned from Singles by O.N.A.N. regs." The rulebook reaches down to the level of the nervous system — a conjoined pair whose fused psychomotor lobes make them one four-legged doubles organism, and whose very anatomy the regulations must adjudicate by barring them from the individual game. The body-as-instrument taken to its literal extreme, and the institution writing rules for it.