CHAPTER ZEE—THEME 18

December 15th, 2017

Easton, Pennsylvania

“Zätt üpsiilon iks, Wee fau Uu, Tee äss ärr kuu,” Rebecca, Jenny and I exclaim, as Eric crashes behind us. “Pee Oo änn ämm, Ell kaa Ii haa, Gee äff Ee dee zee beeee?”

We’ve taken advantage of our book-release tour supporting Fight Fascism!—the new issue of World War 3 Illustrated attacking Trump—to squeeze in an Ur Sonata evening at Book & Puppet Company, the place Rebecca and I just launched. Artist’s-book maker Maryann Riker—one of our Mangled Myths puppet-show regulars—sits with a friend. Maryann asks, “Andy and Rebecca, have you met Lette?” We have not: we only moved to Easton this year, when I got fired by Bank Street College.

Turns out we’re not the only dada refugees around here: eighty-two-year-old Lette Eisenhauer, the taboo-busting young Fluxus performance artist from the sixties, is one of our neighbors.