I was curious, so I looked this up. Eve Babitz, seen in the photo with Duchamp (it's not the more famous one where you can't see her face), had some kind of correspondence with Didion and mentions her a bit cryptically in the dedication to Eve's Hollywood.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/08/joan-didion-letters-eve-babitz
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 02:23 (seven months ago) link
I tried reading that Vanity Fair article. I stuck with it for about 3000 words, but it never seemed to rise above the level of celebrity gossip -- and the gossip was fifty years out of date.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 04:32 (seven months ago) link
Here's the story from Eve, via NYRB
https://lithub.com/eve-babitz-on-the-time-she-played-chess-nude-with-marcel-duchamp/
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 20:04 (seven months ago) link
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50961568-the-hand-of-ethelberta
― koogs, Sunday, 17 March 2024 17:37 (two months ago) link
(thomas hardy illustrated by a robot hand)
not necessarily demented but...https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51IZF4j5QmL.jpg
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 17 March 2024 18:54 (two months ago) link