Wouldn't you just know, within no less than 48 hours of touch-down, I received two phone calls. One from Soho Art Supplies and the other from Sotheby's auction house, quite sure that they'd like to get in on the ground floor of whatever before Christie's could manage a side-step. It isn't so much that there isn't a Sibleys and Arrowsmiths here, I suppose. It's that I had a reputation at both of these places - a reputation, I suppose, for good - and they're interested in re-upping their contracts with me.
I don't Even though
I am glad - in a way - that I can lean upon the goodwill wrought from my other self.