JOI's "professional conversationalist" rant links Avril to Luria P—, DuPlessis, and the Resistance

pivotal · 1 April YTMP (2003) — separatist-ties crux

• When: 1 April YTMP (2003), per scene 005's dateline (JOI, disguised, one year before his death)
• What: JOI, impersonating a "professional conversationalist" to draw out the ten-year-old Hal he deludedly believes is mute, pours out a torrent of jealous, paranoid "delving" about Avril: "your family's sordid liaison with the pan-Canadian Resistance's notorious M. DuPlessis and his malevolent but allegedly irresistible amanuensis-cum-operative, Luria P———"; "your own dear grammatical mother's cavortings with not one not two but over thirty Near Eastern medical attachés"; "weekly... maternal... assignations with a certain unnamed bisexual bassoonist in the Albertan Secret Guard's tactical-bands unit"; and "esoteric mnemonic steroids" slipped into Hal's Ralston. The passage is the single richest textual node of the Luria/Québec question — but it is JOI's alcoholic-delusional ventriloquism, evidence and symptom at once. Whether any of it is true, the text never says; the Luria identification itself, though, the text rules out — scene 029 names the widow and "one Mlle. Luria Perec" as two distinct L'Islet women and never equates them (see Dating notes).