The same article speculates that a Bard professor's wife, Rikki Ducornet, was the inspiration for "Rikki Don't Lose That Number".
In the March 24, 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly, in an article titled "Back To Annandale", it was postulated that Ducornet was the apparent inspiration for the 1974 Steely Dan hit "Rikki Don't Lose That Number", because of a friendship songwriter Donald Fagen had with Ducornet while he attended Bard.
The Stain is a 1984 novel of sexuality and religion by Rikki Ducornet, set in France's Loire Valley in the nineteenth century.
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