Resisting the urge to touch John Cage so that she could tell her grandchildren that she had touched John Cage and also that their Grandfather had touched Ken Stabler, Jim Plunkett, and Marcus Allen; realizing that this was a dream scenario and probably "played with" would be a better way to express this; and that this fantasy of life with Griff had gone way too far after only four dates, and that John Cage was actually talking to her, Caydance paid attention to what he said.

What he said was a story from his own life, how after the performance of 4'33" (informally known as "silence"), it was years before some musicians spoke to him. What he meant, she thought -- was a concern that in the midst of the euphoria of online publication, it would be wise to expect that this would not be everywhere welcome. Before she could ask him if that was what he meant, a critic entered the conversation and turned it to the parallel issue of printing with primal elements that Cage was exploring at Crown Point Press.