Because the crowd was not contained, as it has been in some of my other hand out pieces, and because each handout was different, most people reacted to the piece based on the one value they received rather than by sharing and comparing values. Some were pleased. Others were outraged or confused. A value that showed George Bush standing in front of a huge American flag with a girl scout beside him was immediately crumpled up and thrown away. A crowd of Asians with shopping bags full of groceries were confused but politely accepted values.
Some people read the texts on the pedestal.
Others were curious about what I had on under the nightgown. The time frame was the 30 minutes preceding the 1989 earthquake. Mary's route involved a freeway and a bridge which would both break when the earthquake hit. Since this was the group mind taking the persona of the characters, the emphasis was on the character's thoughts and their memories. In the final work, I put the 3 topics in a data structure in which the thought streams of the 3 characters were simultaneously displayed.