The ceremony is held outdoors, in a space associated with neither Church nor State. The officiant proclaims the introduction and welcome, consisting of fragments from Irigaray’s An Ethics of Sexual Difference. The betrothed then perform a public reading of Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse from beginning to end. The completion signifies that they are wed. A gong is sounded, then silenced, and a final blessing is issued in excerpts from Buber’s Between Man and Man. Finally, the wedding party adjourns to a dim bar, where vast quantities of discourse and proletarian booze eventually lead to the communal performance of the Sprockets Dance.