Small black squiggles mixed in with tangles of horizontal and vertical lines.

Yet we yearn for a reading experience as vivid as those black squiggles on the white page that he mentions.

And though I could read a newspaper when I was four, scores were only pretty black squiggles.

Of the hats shown here, "the white one with the black squiggle is for Victoria de Rothschild," he says.

"Two hundred pound wheat flower," he wrote, trying to concentrate on the neatness of the black squiggles under his quill.

There were eight more white-glowing touch points: two additional vertical rows beside the first, set closer together, and each of these was marked with a black squiggle.

There were hills in the distance with twisted trees, their branches like quick black squiggles of ink.

These color-splashed objects, with swooping handles, holes in the center or mysterious black squiggles, also owe much to Abstract Expressionism.

The cat is a lovely shade of blue with black squiggles, and there of course is more of this blue with every page.

In "Sonderbar" (1935-45) she fills the entire canvas with brightly colored geometric forms countered by a surface smattering of black calligraphic squiggles.