"After the Art School brawl, we talked about writers who kept company with the Cubist artists.". Sitting at a long table where all who came for dinner sat together, they were at The Basque Hotel. Caydance had suggested this place where Griff had never been. Food was served community style. No menu, but there was an endless supply of red table wine. Garlic soup and warm bread were followed by Basque chicken, a casserole containing peppers, onions, braised chicken, sausages, and a sauce which was so good that it was difficult not to lick the plate. An enormous platter of French Fries was served on the side. Griff had no complaints.

"Alfred Jarry, Max Jacob, Gertrude Stein, and in the case of Marie Laurencin, Guillaume Apollinaire," Caydance continued. "Yuri, who was due to present, was showing Natasha where the color xerox was. This was taking a little longer than expected."

"Natasha?"

"A Russian-born art history lecturer, who showed up in my classroom in search of the color xerox. Yuri returned just in time to talk about Lynn Hershman's Lorna. But it was clear that his mind was not on Lorna".

At the table someone was playing the accordion. Griff helped himself to more Basque chicken, more bread, and more red wine. "Lorna?"

"It's an interactive videodisk about a woman who spends her life watching TV and never goes out. Viewers use a remote to navigate the story. In my class, after Yuri's low-credit traversal of Lorna, Millie, a painter and graphic artist, talked about the differences between Fernand Leger's painting 'Woman with a Mirror' and his lithograph 'Woman at the Mirror'. She plans to make a handmade book that contrasts the paintings and the lithographs of the same subject."

studio icon Griff didn't drink red wine very often. "This is a great place," he said. Good thing we walked, Caydance thought.