the picture snapped like a rubber band in my head-alice in the cleopatra costume and gladiator sandals at the party was also the same alice from that day last year , too-we 'd been trooping through tribeca and then we 'd stopped by the apartment on north moore street , and alice was egging us on , `` let 's go up , just for a minute , '' and then we were spilling through those giant rooms , looking for anthony 's painting ... . on rachel 's `` earth to ember ! ''