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Episode Four
Fournarinas
I announced, enunciating each word, that I was about to start a secret revolutionary society: the Order of Bread, that would be the starting point of a revolution in mass sensibility and cause the systematic requestioning of social logic and world order. Nothing less.
Salvador Dali
Amidst the hub-bub of rehearsals and the time-consuming task of designing costumes for the production of San Salvador's almost forgotten opera, Olivia managed to work behind the esoteric scenes to re-establish a modern day version of Dali's not-so-secret society, The Order of Bread. The new organization, however, was meant to be a covert operation intent on decoding the mysteries inherent in the man from Catalan's art works and literary output.
Not quite certain as to why the painter had dubbed his own society after a conclave of bakers, the Cybersybil considered that since alchemy and haute cuisine went hand-in-hand, Dali must have been cooking up something monumental, especially since the 20th century Don Quixote never seemed to do anything in a small way.
The first person Miss O consulted as to the structure of the Dalinian cabal was her trusted friend, Madame 22. Although the latter was busy writing, touring and lecturing, the Black Popess considered Olivia's request for help as carefully as she would a scroll from the time of the Roman Emperor Trajan.
"As to the question of membership," Mme. 22 began in an electronic missive to her compatriot, "I am sending you an elite cadre: three of the best and brightest stars ever to obtain acceptance to the Daughters of Maria Magdalena. Each lady comes to you with my personal seal of approval - consider them worthy additions to your new band of bakers. Au Bon Pain, 22"
Attached to the official decree, Olivia found three detailed dossiers concerning her wise friend's selections for The Bakery.
  
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