the feral-hamster footnote: the gift as territorial fact
The herd is descended from two domestic hamsters set free by a Watertown NY boy at the beginning of the Experialist migration in the subsidized Year of the Whopper.
Context
Experialism stated as flat cartographic fact, deadpan as a nature documentary: former Vermont and central Maine are now a feral wasteland and "All these territories are now property of Canada" — the "gift" of the Convexity rendered as settled geography, dated to "the beginning of the Experialist migration in the subsidized Year of the Whopper." The grievance of 016 is here the map itself; the calendar-name ("Year of the Whopper") times the dispossession to a corporate sponsor.