and among the night managers cohorts there was certainly no shortage of anguish about the omission on sir leks regents square epitaph of his now-legendary first encounter with the travelling artist and gallerist from kaiiba , sanchez , who had vowed to rescue him from this squalid hellpit so long as he was willing to take part in a few harmless , albeit humiliating , artistic installations he sought to stage in the grand amphitheater in baba city .