You have to stand up real close to the posters to see the swirls, and even then they’re easy to miss: Lila Mae had to have Jimmy point them out to her. Horns, boiling cysts, the occasional cussword inked in across Chancre’s slat teeth – they add up after a while, somehow more personal and meaningful than the usual cartoons and pinups of office homesteading.
-Colson Whitehead
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