"Not everyone likes this work."
Dorothy had read on my face how I felt.
"Perhaps it is the contrast between the filmic imagery and the writer.
One of the artists in Sid's stable
saw my painting of Jane Austen at the gallery,
and she painted a response."

It's here in the gallery." Sid had joined us.
He gestured to a large painting
on the opposite wall.

Superimposed on a white background
were eight manuscript pages painted side by side.