The move south: liaison and leash-holder in metro Boston, patron and fixer of the network

texture · UNDATED ("in the long past"; before Autumn YDPAH)

• When: UNDATED, well before his death in Autumn YDPAH — Marathe's residency documents were arranged "in the long past"
• What: DuPlessis "selflessly volunteered to move with his family to the savagely American area of metro Boston to act as liaison between and general leash-holder for the half-dozen or so malevolent and mutually antagonistic groups of Québecer Separatists and Albertan ultra-rightists" united only by hatred of the Great Convexity "gift" — the endnote apparatus adds that Québec's ban on fluorescence (among other ambient American indignities) is one reason the volunteering was selfless. The Brookline neo-Georgian home with the seascape-safed bedroom is that liaison post. His hand shows all over the network's plumbing: he was "their late regional patron M. Guillaume DuPlessis of the Gaspé Peninsula" to the hapless Antitoi brothers, gently protecting the borderline-incompetent cell and restraining Bertraund's harebrained schemes ("puerile and on the whole rather sad little gestures that M. DuPlessis would have interdicted with a merry laugh and a friendly hand on Bertraund's bowling ball of a shoulder"); and in November YDAU Marathe can still produce, at Ennet House's door, "the documents M. DuPlessis had arranged with foresight in the long past" — legal residency papers, still working years after their arranger's death.