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It is June 20, 1952, a decade after the events described in , the first volume of Michel Tremblays series of autobiographical fiction. The mystic, yet palpable instant of summers arrival is experienced simultaneously by the fat womans son (who is never named) and Marcel. These moving, profoundly different epiphanies of a transforming world, seen through the memories of the characters, set the stage for the action of the novel which takes place in the space of this single, evocative day. The fat womans son experiences this moment as an episode of profound personal objectificationhe sees himself as in a photo of that larger, inclusive moment. Marcel, on the other hand, literally seizes the moment, and stores it in his school bag as a physical thing.