For legal reasons, I cannot say that I sanded myself with the 3M brand of micro abrasives. I will ask a reader to infer usage of the product under discussion. I will promise that if sometime you should see me, and you can prove that you are not a federal marshal, I will demonstrate what I have done to myself, my abradement endeavor, in a private shelter. This project assumes a reader capable of imagining me, a headstrong girl in her forties, of using tools and materials to shape her oblong flesh craft, her vessel of demise, her body, into something statistically amazing.

—Ben Marcus