Poutrincourt's "Separatism and Return" — Hal's O.N.A.N. political awakening

texture · 7 Nov YDAU

• When: 7 Nov YDAU (2009), the Saturday last-period class
• What: In Mlle. Thierry Poutrincourt's prorector course "Separatism and Return: Québecois History from Frontenac Through the Age of Interdependence" (taught in Québécois French), Hal Incandenza develops "a layman's savvy for Canadianism and O.N.A.N.ite politics" — topics he'd previously found "not only dull but queerly distasteful." The contemporary anti-O.N.A.N. insurgency material gives him a "furtively nauseous" feeling — the thread's geopolitics registering, uneasily, inside E.T.A. Included as the reader's in-world window onto O.N.A.N. history (the course narrates events 14 and the backlash's prehistory). See the Hal timeline; the E.T.A. thread (event 9).