The First Meeting of the Satie Society included texts by Henry David Thoreau, James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Chris Mann, Marshall McLuhan and Cage himself -- as well as selections from The Book of Genesis. Whether on screen or on computer paper, the output was generated by programs written at Cage's request. Jim Rosenberg's MESOLIST created variations based on Satie's name. a program by Andrew Culver generated text using I Ching-based chance processes. In preparation for next week's class, Caydance had the thick printout that Carl had left her, and she had dialed in and was accessing the First Meeting of the Satie Society online. She was moving back and forth from the menu to each section of Cage's work, when Sido called from across the Bay.

"Someone has been in my collection room", Sido said. "Nothing is missing, as far as I can tell, and there is not enough evidence to call the police. But some works of art are not in the places that they were before."