Mario's ONANtiad at the I.-Day gala

If it’s odd that Mario Incandenza’s first halfway-coherent film cartridge—a 48-minute job shot three summers back in the carefully decorated janitor-closet of Subdorm B with his head-mount Bolex H64 and foot-treadle—if it’s odd that Mario’s first finished entertainment consists of a film of a puppet show—like a kids’ puppet show—then it probably seems even odder that the film’s proven to be way more popular with E.T.A.’s adults and adolescents than it is with the woefully historically underinformed children it had first been made for. It’s proved so popular that it gets shown annually now every 11/8, Continental Interdependence Day, on a wide-beam cartridge projector and stand-up screen in the E.T.A. dining hall, after supper.