The Concavity cabinet; Clipperton — "CANADIAN P.M. TO GENTLE: LOOK, WE’RE…"
CANADIAN P.M. TO GENTLE: LOOK, WE’RE SWIMMING IN TERRITORY ALREADY, HAVE A LOOK AT AN ATLAS WHY DON’T YOU, WE HAVE WAY MORE TERRITORY THAN WE KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH ALREADY, PLUS I DON’T MEAN TO BE RUDE EITHER BUT WE’RE ESPECIALLY UNKEEN ON ACCEPTING HOPELESSLY BEFOULED TERRITORY FROM YOU GUYS, INTERDEPENDENCE RHETORIC OR NO, THERE’S REALLY JUST NO WAY—And Again;
Context
Canada declines the gift, in headline form, by appeal to the atlas: territory as brute quantity you can look up, against the American position that territory is whatever the map can be made to say. Comedy, but it keeps the theme's two poles — the atlas and the actual befouled ground — in one breath.