<p>Here is a fable about what happens</p><p><br></p><p> -when young Brian with a mysterious illness is confined to a white White WHITE room four flights up in his family''s Goodly Home to avoid all excitement until a cure is found...</p><p> -when Brian cries in grief for everything he has lost- the Sun and Moon, the White Sea-Dragon who curls from the Sea-fogs on the cliffs at night, the Sea, Great White-peaked Mountain, and the ancient but modern and madly eccentric town of Sandstone-by-the-Sea...</p><p> -when his father Moab hires the always angry Mervyn, a mere House Painter, to paint Brian''s walls with views of everything he misses- for no artist will paint things just as they are- and who paints it all so well it is a New World to explore and run free in and abandon the Old, as does Brian...</p><p> &n