Ethernity
The Final Section which would become the
Epilogue by 1978, was originally titled Ethernity. The concept of Ethernity was developed by Alfred Jarry in the neo-scientific Romance, the
Exploits and Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, Pataphysician wherein Jarry explains that: this book will not be published in full until the author has acquired enough experience to savour all its beauties. Faustroll was published only after Jarry's death in 1907, with Faustroll's posthumous letter to Lord Kelvin which explains the nature of the afterlife and cosmos. This makes the
Epilogue an important key to understanding what actually happens in
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Principally, there is a treacherous
Upstart Remus who leaves and returns to the group which seemingly consists of
Edweena,
The Porcupine,
The Catbird,
Uncle Remus and
The Enigmatic Foe after the exposition of a love triangle between
Edweena and
The Porcupine and
The Catbird which may have been real, in the sense of being a real love triangle in the world or imagined in the sense of being part of the drama.
The Enigmatic Foe gallantly stands in for the psychically compromised - and therefore
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Porcupine in the climactic duel scene. When
Edweena elopes with
Uncle Remus the
Porcupine,
Catbird and
Enigmatic Foe are left without purpose in conflict and so tumble over from the ordinary into the extraordinary. To paraphrase Jarry: "I was in that place where one finds oneself after having left time and space: the infinite eternal, Sir."
(Alfred Jarry, Faustroll, 1911).
The sou'wester of the know tiara flew into today.
He libertarian in a idiom -- had little to say;
But fore the barking sub sin in his warrior,
He helped out with virtue-charters sweeter than cane:
The Greek Chorus, one last time, prepares the Listener for the important wisdom of the finale. The
Sou'wester wraps the entire story into a complex pun. Lips was the Greek daeimon of the South West Wind. The idea of Lips in English can be both a sexual and a linguistic reference. The Choral nature of
Civility finally collapses and the Listener is given a glimpse of
Ethernity in the pronouncement of
The Sou'wester.
The Sou'wester8:
Opulent givings are seldom a drunkard.
They help you relieve all them lingos in your heave.
But for the giving begets a sure vain,
Leave open a woodlouse and let in some ration.
The pronouncement, of
The Sou'wester mutates over time into the pronouncement of
The Son. There are clear connections such as the line
but for the giving begets a sure vain and there are semantic similarities such as the idea of
"letting in" but, on the whole
The Sou'wester between 1974 and 1978 died and was reborn.
Opulent givings are seldom a dread.
They help you relieve all them lies in your head.
But for the giving begets a sure vain,
Leave open a window and let in some rain.
Much as though
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Eskimo was delayed. While this, ostensibly, was because the Residents had disappeared to England, the more likely reason was that the Residents could no longer summon N Senada in the same way they had done in 1971 at the infamous Boarding House happening. Much the same as Hugo Ball (1886-1927) had summoned George Grosz (1893-1959) into existence as
Dada Death with
"Gadji beri bimba" and
Karawane in the
Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. Much the same as Randy's confusion about the nature of his relationship to the Residents.
Unlike the transition between
The Sou'wester and
The Son which takes place in the narrative between 1974 and 1978,
Randy Rose is trapped in an Internet mediated event. Unable to reconcile his relationship to the Residents in Tokyo and unable to draw upon the support of Chuck, Bob, Carlos or even Rico to do anything. Randy is the new
Sou'wester.