Close readers
I said to a colleague in the film racket this weekend that 99% of the audience for most art and entertainment regard it as a forgettable diversion. And there is nothing wrong with that. I have the start-of-the-school-year cold right now and would kill for some great diversion. Occasionally you have a reader or a viewer or a listener that pays extra attention and finds things in your work that gave them meaning when you made them. I don’t know this Angela Hickman but readers like her make it worth it.
It was more than 25 years ago but I studied that Restoration satire too.