1978 (exact date unknown)
Dear you,
If one didn’t mind the parts that were still drying, Canaletto’s Venezia proved not only to be an adequate and secure crossing but an attractive one too. Mind how you land, of course, those buildings they can topple and slide into the watery pool below, and the inhabitants take none too kindly to that. They like their painted world to stay relatively fixed… a notion I have never shared.
Yours with a soaring leap,
X
(Imaginary trouble is the real thing after all!)
