sometimes by the artist himself or herself, in this case sharon rudolph, one of those survivors from the underground comics, in this case feminist underground comics of the 1970s. and very often somewhere in between. sharon is speaking of herself in her own life. i believe she wrote a couple of pornography novels under another name in order to fund herself through art school -- >> a couple of characters do that. >> yes. yes, right. but she's also channeling me, the editorial voice, in asking the young generation -- readers under 30 mainly, not entirely -- why is it that bohemians seem to violate social, sexual and other norms? and going back to paris in the 1850s and corbet which is sort of how we start the book, the great artist and revolutionary, what is the relationship between the artist who puts aside career aspirations as insufficiently important for any serious artist to engage in and attaches himself to other people, mostly young people who in the case of paris in the 1850s started getting their clothes from used clothing stores and having affairs, making art and oatly and ot