On Friday morning, while Griff was working with the Stanford team, Caydance went to the University Art Museum, where she was confronted with Giulio Paolini's Interval: The Wrestlers. Paolini's installation -- comprised of two large plaster casts placed across the gallery from each other -- was created by separating the top and the bottom of a Roman two wrestlers sculpture, unearthed in a vineyard in the Sixteenth century. Now, on Saturday morning, sitting in a Berkeley deli, Caydance mused that it was not Paolini's museum-situated "interval", that primarily interested her. It was the relevance of the perhaps Big Game-inspired contrast of this masculine sculptural work with the fragile artist book aesthetic that usually infused the residues of research in Paolini's recreations of art history: empty music stands, floor scattered photographs and manuscript in Scene di conversazione; fragments enclosed in plexiglass in L'idolo.
Because of concern for her safety while Mackie Alarie was still at large, Griff had spent Thursday and Friday nights in Caydance's studio. Saturday morning, she had dropped him off early at Memorial Stadium and then parked in a place where she could leave her car until the end of the day. He was confident that Stanford (7-2) would beat Cal (1-9). Only once had she reminded him of what had happened in the 1982 Big Game, John Elway's last game as a Stanford Quarterback.