Hey honey! As for Charlotte I read that thing so fast - I couldn't resist. See if The High has anything by Agnes Martin. In real life they're beautiful.

What a treat to see your newest "This Week in the Culture" offering. You had me at the Barbara Stanwyck (I never can spell her last name right) still. I never thought about the disjointedness of the public domain films I experienced exclusively on TV over 3 decades---and like most readers are inclined to do, I suppose I just filled in the gaps and jumped over the jagged edges to get the story. Black and white films have a particular subtlety that no other kind of film has. Somehow it's easy to forgive bad edits and inconsistencies because you've already agreed to accept the the premise of the film and enter its world because you know that the very fact that it is black and white means it's not" real life." It is particularly for the subconscious. I read "Charlotte Sometimes" with the same mindset that I watched those old films.

As for Agnes Martin, hmmmm. Perhaps it is my uneducated eye that makes me think "I could do that"---and I'm no artist. Maybe I'd feel differently if I saw the canvases themselves, but maybe not.

Thanks again for the special treat. B&W films and children's fantasy books are close to my heart. You made my day!