Endnote 176 — Mario's film echoes his father's ONANtiad

Notes that Mario's Reconfiguration parody derives from Himself's own ONANtiad, which centered on a doomed, unconsummated affair between President Gentle and the germ-phobic wife of a Canadian minister — a minister who has a specialist inflict a chronic yeast infection on her, driving both lovers to breakdown and Gentle toward continent-scale revenge. Consensus around E.T.A. is that Mario's version is funnier and more accessible.