The second Inaugural: "the past has been torched" — and the pie shell on the rostrum

texture · second term, Subsidized era

• When: the second-term Inauguration; by the YDAU present he has been "roundly disliked for over two terms now"
• What: Re-elected, Gentle opens his second term with the line Mario's film chooses as its epigraph — "Let the call go forth, to pretty much any nation we might feel like calling, that the past has been torched by a new and millennial generation of Americans" — the JFK cadence rewritten as menace-shopping. The scholarly apparatus preserves what else attended the ceremony: the Fils de Montcalm cell is credited with "the helicoptered dropping of the 12 meter, human waste filled, pie shell onto the rostrum of U.S. President Gentle's second Inaugural" — the era's waste, air-freighted back onto its architect. That he serves on past two terms into YDAU is attested only in these asides; the book never shows another election.