Wayne's broadcast insult, read back in the Dean's office

texture · 17 Nov YDAU

• When: 17 Nov YDAU — the WETA hot-mic broadcast's administrative aftermath, in the Dean of Academic Affairs' Office.
• What: Her last corpus attestation is as material in someone else's catastrophe. At the meeting where deLint, Nwangi, and Watson have Pemulis in the Dean of Academic Affairs' Office — "the whole Academy hears Mr. Troeltsch prompt Wayne into making public castigations of his various peers and instructors" — deLint reads Wayne's aired riff back from a sheaf, including "On Bernadette Longley: 'Bernadette Longley looks like her hair grew her head instead of the other way around.'" She sits between the Tavis imitation and Thode's "face like a pancake" in Wayne's insult sequence: proof of how the campus's flattest gaze renders even a top girl as a one-line grotesque — and a second narrator fixing on the same head the narration had already called long and boxy.