Both of us blissfully unaware that any of this is in Lewis's future, we chat on a very crackly line that almost drowns her tiny speaking voice.
The Microscopic Septet, opening the show with a 20-year reunion concert, recreated the feel of an Atlantis-like city, early-80's New York, a sort of screwball town where sassy irony ruled and musicians in skinny neckties played their brainy tunes in tiny speak-easies that defied zoning laws.
"But perhaps because the world of ballet is so tiny, relatively speaking, it is even more of a rarity".
Yet that tiny elegy speaks forward too, perhaps, to another, later vanished relatedness, that between Martin and his first wife, Antonia Phillips.
As turbaned fighters swept through her town in northwestern Pakistan in 2009, the tiny schoolgirl spoke out about her passion for education — she wanted to become a doctor, she said — and became a symbol of defiance against Taliban subjugation.
The challenge quickly attracted 11 boats, ranging in size from the full-rigged ship Valhalla, at 245 feet over all and 648 tons, to the tiny (relatively speaking) Fleur de Lys, at a mere 108 feet and 86 tons.
There are many ways to knot a tie, to adjust a skirt, or casually sling a sweater round your shoulders, and these tiny signifiers speak volumes in the closed, claustrophobic world of school.
Those tiny eyes spoke to me now: Be my friend.
Which is where detective work, body language, and speech monitoring comes into it: watch closely, because every teeny tiny gesture speaks volumes.
In the tiny-speak of contemporary magazine publishing, the caption says it all.
