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the two-track mission: two ways to the Entertainment — the plot's mission statement

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There were two ways of going, and Les Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents were prepared to pursue both these.

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The last act's political mission stated in one paragraph: the A.F.R. pursue "two ways" to the Entertainment — the indirect route of surveilling and taking the auteur's associates for interview, and "the directer route—to locate and secure a Master copy... on their own," the reason "they were now still here, in the Antitois' shop," "turning all the stones." The strategic doctrine is the anthology's political engine for the endgame: the whole convergence on the Incandenza estate, the Antitoi raid, the Ennet House probes all follow from this two-track plan to obtain a duplicable weapon. (The technical-interview / surveillance method is surveillance-disguise's; landed here is the org-level strategic mission.)

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