Withdrawing Fables From The Memory Bank

Part Two: All The Rage

Graduation. Not Basil. Not Joey.

Our story opens on a Monday in November of 1964, with a view from up on top of one of the many construction cranes where the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts was rising. A twenty slipped to the worker on the crane got us this interesting overhead shot.

We see Basil, a fifteen-year-old high school freshman emerging from the subway…