In Book 28, Grand Rapids, Pawel finds himself living and teaching in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He's teaching at the Randall School of Art. Perhaps the most intellectually depressed school that he had ever experienced. The Board of Trustees would rather spend three-quarters of a million dollars fighting the Faculty Union for their personal rights and a pay raise, all of which would have cost the school less than $100,000. Michigan was an anti-union state,...