"Huddlegate after dinner works for me. However, your game is Saturday; my class is tomorrow." On her studio desk lay a stack of videos. " All these videos I have viewed in the past. Some, I re-watched today. But time flew, and there are three I need to watch before class. First we begin with champagne from the Wine County; also from the Wine Country: cheese, winery crackers, figs, olives, walnuts, and apples. Then we will watch three videos from my collection, followed by dinner, which is roast chicken and Mediterranean potatoes. Then, we will conclude with huddlegate, dessert, and bed."

Griff smiled, went to the refrigerator, withdraw a bottle of Mumm Brute, opened it. On the table were two glasses, wordlessly he filled them. Caydance picked up a video. "Land artist Nancy Holt's East Coast/West Coast, videoed by Peter Campus in Joan Jonas' Soho studio. Holt plays a New York conceptual artist. In an aura of chain smoking, swearing prolifically, her husband Robert Smithson plays a laid-back California artist, although actually he was born and bred in New Jersey. Maybe this improvised conversation would not be so meaning laden if you do not know that in the following year he will create the legendary Spiral Jetty in Great Salt Lake, and that a few years later, in 1973 he will die in a plane crash.

Caydance set down East Coast West Coast. In her hands, she now held Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Permutations. "It is a slow, continually appearing and reappearing evocative portrait of her sister." Although what happened to Theresa was forever on her own mind, this was all that Caydance said.

"The third video is Quidditas, Frank Gillette 1974-75, 19 minutes, color, sound. Ocean, waves, dunes, yellow white beaches, pine woods move perfectly across the screen, as if I was still a child, painting beside a pond, running down a hill to an inland beach distinguished by piles of scallop shells. Cape Cod.”