Among the other artists books she planned to show her class on Tuesday was John Baldessari's Fable a sentence of thirteen parts (with Twelve Alternate Verbs) Ending in Fable, published in Hamburg Germany in 1977. In the Flaxman Library when she was an MFA student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she had opened the printed wrapper and unfolded the whole. And into her notebook from that era, she had copied documentation that accompanied the work.

"Part of the work is a horizontal foldout of thirteen pictures. On all but one of the images the artist has written nouns or adjectives in yellow, which are to be read syntactically from left to right. The center picture represents the verb, and is intersected by a vertical foldout of images with alternative verbs written on them."

The images were blurred black and white photographs appropriated from television or old movies that were not well-known enough (to her) to be instantly recognizable. The writing was a shade of yellow. The action of unfolding Fable was primary, as if the reader/viewer was immersed in a memory of forgotten images and emotions. 'friends' 'enter' 'intense' 'watch'."