He is more readily remembered as a
punner and prognosticator, a maven of Madison Avenue, a cameo in Annie Hall, or "A Part of Our [Canadian] Heritage," (1) than as a rigorous researcher.
A Proustian and a
punner, Godard clearly intends "Avant-hier" to semantically slip into its near homologue, "Avenir" (Future); one is left with the sense that it is not the past but the past-as-future Godard posits here, a kind of anteroom of the ensuant in which we glimpse a new Dark Age on its way.
An inveterate
punner, his poems call to mind the nonsense poems of Edward Lear but with a 21st century spin.