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"The Fall of Hyperion", book two of 'the Hyperion Cantos' by Dan Simmons :-

"I understand," I said softly. My plate was empty. I raised the last of my bad champagne to toast Diana Philomel.
"Draw me," she said.
"I beg your pardon?"
"Draw me, M. Severn. You're an artist."
"A painter," I said, making a helpless gesture with an empty hand.
"I'm afraid I have no stylus."
Diana Philomel reached into her husband's tunic pocket and handed me a light pen. "Draw me. Please."

I drew her. The portrait took shape in the air between us, lines rising and falling and turning back on themselves like neon filaments in a wire sculpture. A small crowd gathered to watch. Mild applause rippled when I finished. The drawing was not bad. It caught the lady's long, voluptuous curve of neck, high braid bridge of hair, prominent cheekbones.

Then, a figure appeared out of a farcast portal and said, "Hi, my name's James Cameron, and I'm a thieving little shit."

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