the Separatism seminar: 750 clicks of Concavity — the burden falls on Québec — "plus the brunt of the airborne…"

The material grievance, quantified: "three-quarters of the Concavity's northern border runs contiguous to Québec" — "Something like 750 clicks of border along the Concavity, with attendant seepage." Whatever Ottawa's formal cartography, "the physical fact and fallout of the Concavity — it's Québec's problem," bearing "the brunt of the airborne wastes from the high-altitude ATHSCMEs" and getting "splatted when the E.W.D. vehicles overshoot." "Once again they get the gooey end of the Canadian dipstick." The experialist geography is not abstract dispossession but a 750-kilometer wound along one province's border — the concrete stake beneath the whole insurgency.