Carla happened to be kneeling outside the poultry enclosure when she heard her daughter Amanda in the milking barn telling the new boyfriend, “My father is a beatnik. He hates life up here. He calls us ‘montagnards.’ He really loves North Beach. And he’s in the right place, too, in North Beach. Because he’s into porn — something I approve of. Well, he isn’t ‘into porn,’ but he made his money writing an erotic book using the author name Francesca Weld. It’s the only book he’s sold so far. All his serious work frightens people. People are just too stupid for it.” Judging by the sounds inside, the boyfriend was toying with the latch on one of the milking stalls.