Infinite Summer

Wasn't there one about a Perdue Stuffed Chicken?

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This to me is one of the funniest motifs in the book. The fact that today we have sports stadiums and concert halls named after big corporate conglomerates (there is a Dunkin Donuts Center in R.I.- is there any name more ridiculous than that?) leads me to believe that soon there will be corporations vying for the right to name the months and years!

I see these silly corporate names sometimes and remark to my friends "see The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment" isn't too far away really".

hey deafgeek, just chiming in to say I've mapped out the Sponsored timeline identically to you so far.

Also adding that Hal is 18 in the Year of Glad (at time of UA admissions interview), and turning 11 in the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad (as per professional conversationalist episode).

Weird...I am reading from the 1997 paperback, in which he tells the conversationalist he'll be 11 in June.

I would also like to point out the hilarity of the Statue of Liberty's commercialized use in the subsidization scheme. Marathe describes the statue wearing a huge adult diaper in YDAU... I can only imagine what she looked like in the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad!

Huh. My wife has my 1997 paperback copy right now, but I do remember vaguely that Hal was turning 11 in the professional conversation scene as well. I wonder if we need a new thread about the discrepancies between versions. Anybody have the 2006 paperback that can give us how old Hal is there?

Certainly part of it is the whole quasi-dystopian corporate-U.S.A. joke, but it also serves to heighten the confused and fragmentary sense of the narrative.
I also keep thinking to that opening "Year of Glad," before we realize this is some kind of corporate-sponsored weird takeover of the calender, it just sounds sort of like the year is a happy, upbeat one. But from what we've seen so far, it doesn't really seem that way. There's a lot of irony and multiple meaning going on with that one.

One more for the subsidized year list. Footnote a to endnote 24 mentions Year of the D.P. from the A.H.

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Thanks, levingard. I completely missed that one this re-read. Of course, now I remember what the initials stand for, but I don't think we've seen it in the past 105 pages yet. I'll just add it to my personal notes for now, unless asked.