the p-terminal precedent: the Entertainment's precursor was "totally a Canadian show" — "This was totally a Canadian show…"

The political pedigree the whole exchange establishes: the pleasure-electrode program — the Entertainment's technological ancestor — was "totally a Canadian show," run by "some leading Canadian neurologist" at Manitoba's Brandon Psychiatric Center. Steeply presses the analogy so the reader sees the irony the current war is built on: the passive-pleasure weapon now weaponized by Québec against the U.S. has its origin north of the border, in the same Canada the Reconfiguration dispossessed. The lethal appetite is not foreign to either nation; it was co-developed.