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Quote #4
[The ballerina] must have been extraordinarily beautiful, because the mask she wore was hideous. And it was easy to see that she was the strongest [...] for her handicap bags were as big as those worn by two-hundred-pound men. (40)
You can tell who is the prettiest by how ugly the mask is, and how strong by the size of the weights. This is quite a reversal of standards. "That is the ugliest mask I've ever seen" and "My, what big weights you have" suddenly become glowing compliments.
Quote #5
A police photograph of Harrison Bergeron was flashed on the screen—upside down, then sideways, upside down again, then right side up. (43)
We're not sure why they have such difficult getting the photo straight. Maybe the person in charge of police photography is blind, similar to the newscaster with a stutter. Or maybe Harrison is just so grotesque in appearance, so inhuman, they have no idea which way the photo is supposed to go at first. Or maybe there's a little government trickery at work.