"Tall Paul": build, gear, the back, and the Kleenex habit

texture · STANDING

• When: STANDING — ongoing physical identity and grooming habit across the whole stretch we see
• What: Shaw's cognomen is literal: he is big enough that his sponsorship gear is Kennex racquets and clothes from Tachani's Big & Tall line. His back is bad — prorector deLint's own pale, pimple-pitted back is called nothing next to Struck's or Shaw's. And he has a small standing grooming habit the text reaches for as a household comparison: he sometimes dabs little bits of Kleenex onto a shaving cut (Mario invokes it to describe Stice's toilet-tissue-covered face).