The ONANtiad puppet-à-clef: Clipperton as the film's secret key

texture · 8 Nov YDAU (afterlife)

• When: 8 Nov YDAU, at the I-Day screening of Mario's puppet film
• What: In Mario's Interdependence-Day puppet ONANtiad, Johnny Gentle threatens to bomb his own nation and toxify Canada "in an insane pout" over Canada's refusal to accept O.N.A.N.'s dump — a scenario that "resonates powerfully" with the E.T.A. audience because the whole thing is "a puppet-à-clef-type allusion to the dark legend of one Eric Clipperton and the Clipperton Brigade": a head of state willing to eliminate his own nation's map is a Clipperton writ national. Scene 091 notes the audience's "chortle-momentum" over "the film's self-felonious Gentle/Clipperton comparisons."