the Separatism seminar: the deep history — 1759 and Amherst's smallpox-blankets

The endnote apparatus grounds the whole seminar in a founding-analog older than O.N.A.N.: the French and Indian War ("La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages"), the Plains of Abraham, and Amherst "with his trusty smallpox-blankets" — biological warfare handed to a subject population, the eighteenth-century rhyme of the twenty-first's toxic gift. The Québécois "memory for insult is the stuff of legend," and Meech Lake III was "Ottawa's fifth and final attempt to placate Québec" (footnote h) — the placation-and-refusal cycle the C.P.C.P. ("Calgarian pro-Canadian Phalanx," footnote l) and the cells inherit. Experialism is the newest layer of a very old dispossession.