Orin's Concavity/Separatism obsession; the samizdat question; Avril the family's "person to chat with about all issues Canadian"

texture · 7 Nov YDAU — separatist-ties crux

• When: 7 Nov YDAU, the I-Day-Eve phone call (fed by Steeply's interviews)
• What: Steeply's "soft profile" turns Orin into an amateur Québec-Separatism theorist, and he presses Hal (n110) on why the F.L.Q. switched from anti-Canadian secession to anti-O.N.A.N. insurgency, and why "The Mad Stork's name would come up in connection with somebody saying samizdat." Hal deflects toward the real expert twice — "the person who's really the person to chat with about all issues Canadian," "a blood-relative who's got dual citizenship" (event 5): Avril. The scene threads Avril silently through the novel's central conspiracy (the Entertainment, the Concavity, the Separatists) as the family's unspoken Canadian authority — without the text ever confirming she is more than a grammarian expatriate.