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More information about Elizabeth Patterson at the LA Times.

A discussion of John Updike’s ‘pointilist description’ of raindrops on a windscreen (see below) at Paper Cuts.

Its panes were strewn with drops that as if by amoebic decision would
abruptly merge and break and jerkily run downward, and the window
screen, like a sampler half-stitched, or a crossword puzzle invisibly
solved, was inlaid erratically with minute, translucent tesserae of
rain.