In my discussion of the papers by Goldman and Crastnopol. I reflect on the positioning of the reader in relation to textual format, presentation, and disguise. This look parallels, and queries, the investigation pursued by these authors regarding the nature of “inauthenticity.” Although I appreciate the authors’ break with psychoanalytic dichotomies of true-false, health-illness, I suggest that power differentials infuse the mask. Through these power arrangements the mask changes its intersubjective position. At times, the mask potentiates the passions, and inspires inquiry and prosocial action. But the mask can become the carapace that conceals destruction (of self, of other.