But all the way home, the pain ­remained.

Suddenly, something loomed up beside her. It was the child.

In appreciating a calligrapher's work, readers feel the artist's mood, a reaction that is a most important characteristic of expressionist art.

We don' t know specifically what they did or said but we feel it.

It' s a little higher and faster, but with odd, devastating pauses and saturnine shades of mockery.