" What's your favourite painting?'
'Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,' Win says without hesitation. 'By Georges Seurat.'
'Isn't that the one made up of dots?'
'Pointillism. Yeah. It represents the two sides of art that I love-on one habd, it's just beautifully rendered because the artist made sure every inch of the canvas was pulsing with life. But there's a whole other side of it - pointillism is a metaphor for society and politics. Painting dot by dot stands in for the industrial revolution and how it was filtering into leisure time in society. I could write a whoe paper on it.' She smiles. 'I did.'
'Sounds like a perfect marriage of skill and significance, 'I say.
'A perect marriage, ' Win repeats. 'Yes. "

― Jodi Picoult , The Book of Two Ways