Kerouac and friends make their way to the party thrown for them by Rose Wise Lazuli, a woman known for being involved in the San Francisco poetry movement. The guests have dinner and mingle with other poets and writers in the room, including the two men that have convinced Irwin of their hostility. After dinner is a poetry reading, which they all attend, arriving in a parade of cars.
Cody doesn't go to the poetry reading. The rest go to hear the featured poet, curious to see what the man has to say. In walks David D'Angeli, a friend of Kerouac's who shares his wit and fervent belief in God, the latter that spawned the nickname "The Priest". The men joke and intend.....
