 The new main became the new home of the George Rikki kinetic sculpture, Double L eccentric gyratory, last month when the sculpture was installed in front of the library, near the corner of Larkin and Fulton streets. The Double L sculpture was a gift to the city from Dr. Carl Gerasi, the Stanford chemistry professor, novelist and generous collector of modern art. The piece was formally installed on the wood side a state of Dr. Gerasi, who paid for most of the costs involved in moving and installing the sculpture at the new main site. Additional installation costs were paid for by the art commission. The day after the Double L sculpture was installed, art commission president Stan Lee Gatti hosted a public dedication ceremony that was attended by library commission president Steve Coulter, Mayor Brown and Dr. Carl Gerasi. The L doesn't just stand for literature, library letters and so on. It's the greatest letter in the English alphabet. It stands for love, libido, lust to give you just a few examples. But you know if you look at City Hall you could say it's liberty, laissez-faire. In San Francisco you'd even say lunacy, meaning lunacy as a complementary term. It's one of the few towns where it is a complementary term. You could look at the state building, federal building and you could talk about law and also largesse. You can talk about all kinds. L is a great letter. I must say the fact that there are two Ls in Willie that I knew. I did not see a W here before. I was long looking for a DJ in here. I never saw it so I'm amazed that they found W and E's in there but I'm happy to do it. One last remark I would like to make. I stopped by here yesterday evening driving by and I would say the great time to see is in fact sunset because the sun comes this way here. You have these enormous shadows over the library and it's usually quite windy and these Ls were really dancing and there were four Ls and not just two. And it's this mixture of literacy, law, love, laughter, light and so on which really all performs here in the square which I think is something that really to me denotes the city of San Francisco. And since this is also a library and I'm now finished I asked my secretary to call up. I didn't have the guts to go here and ask whether they had any of my novels in the library and to my pleasure you did have my last three fiction books but there's a whole pile of books right here which are also by me including an autobiography which you don't have and I said I will not only give it to you but I offer to shelve them too because I understand your problems so if you tell me where to shelve them I'll shelve them for you. Thank you. The 1982 Ricky sculpture rests upon a seven foot high pedestal. The two 18 foot L shaped arms pivot on ball bearings on a Y shaped base and are constantly changing in response to air currents. Sculptor George Ricky is considered a father of kinetic sculpture and his delightful works are installed throughout the world.