She is amusing in her distress, a compulsive blubber who pronounces "squalid" as if a squall were involved, which in her case it usually is.
Now she is amusing herself by writing short stories, but still her cinematic talent comes shining through - emotionally and intellectually, every tale in this debut volume is a quick fix, a burst of clarity delivered at breakneck speed: perfect stuff for a visually oriented, easily distracted generation.
Brown has said she enjoys playing the comical aspects of Dot, stating, "She's not dreadfully funny but she's amusing and I like that because it lightens it up a bit".
The Suburbs, She Whispered" was amusing, and I could relate to Leslie Kaufman's worries about losing street cred as a New Yorker living in the suburbs.
"In retrospect, that was amusing," she said.
"When I first met him, he was amusing," she said.
She added that it was amusing to see art students who have devoted their nascent careers to conceptual performance and technological videos struggle to paint posters and banners, many of them reading "43 + 11".
She thinks he thought it was amusing.
She could be amusing, and, when she asked whether Jean-Paul Sartre was expected to wear false eyelashes when he appeared on television, she made a feminist point very effectively.
