What might redeem The Inheritance's relentless grimness for the incorrigibly light-minded among us is the classic perfection of its imagery (it is full of gates constantly .
This couple isn't so weird but is funny all the same, as a light-minded prostitute (Diana Sands) deflates a heavily stuffed shirt (Alan Alda).
Others who have read The Romantic Comedians, but not Vein of Iron, consider her a light-minded iconoclast from whose irony nothing is safe.
Norman Hetherington in Sydney Morning Herald Australia's most famous doodler, Norman Hetherington, says doodles can be art, but are "too light-minded to be considered art by the high-minded artistic intelligentsia".