Quinton Oliver Jones (1903–1999), Lear: Nothing Comes from Nothing, oil on canvas, 1985, 30 × 26 in. (76.2 × 66 cm), (after William Shakespeare, King Lear), Courtesy Dale & Connie Gephart (guardians of the Quinton Oliver Jones estate and database).

Dexter Sinister, True Mirror, 2008, offset ink on paper, 6 × 4.25 in. (15.2 × 10.8 cm) [www.sinisterdexter.org] Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. (Detail of Quinton Oliver Jones (1903–1999), Lear: Nothing Comes from Nothing, oil on canvas, 1985, 30 × 26 in. (76.2 × 66 cm), (after William Shakespeare, King Lear), Courtesy Dale & Connie Gephart (guardians of the Quinton Oliver Jones estate and database) (in response to a misdirected letter of invitation to Giles Weaver (regarding the statement “There is never one reason for anything.” (excerpted from Giles Weaver, “Further Notes from the Underground,” The Phoenix, Spring 1971 (republished in the section Mark Philips, “Giles Weaver” (originally published as “J.D. Salinger—A Hidden Hand?”, Saturday Review, November/December 1985, (unofficially republished in The Complete Uncollected Short Stories of J.D. Salinger—Vol. II, 1974 (unofficially republished as Twenty-Two Stories by Train Wreck Recluse, 1998, 2000))))))).