Word: loquesto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...photography, recording those surfaces that bewilder her so. She dreams of photographing Thoreau's Walden Pond and perhaps capturing a view of New England when "the world of ideas" still existed. Most of all, she wants to take a definitive picture of "the world-renowned reproductive surgeon Dr. Arnold Loquesto, whom I'd consulted and photographed" posing with his dog. Why? Because, with such a picture, "I would have the answer to the question of how to live in the world...
...repeated, obsessive references to her reproductive surgeon betray the narrator's deepest concern without, apparently, her being aware of the disclosure. Whatever Dr. Loquesto was supposed to do for her somehow did not work, in a way she doesn't explain. She is 40 and childless, and Hecht has subtly grounded all these remarkably funny and engaging stories in the fundamental sadness of mortality...
...never wallows in self-pity; she wallows, instead, in deracinated compassion for everyone, including herself, who must cope with contemporary reality. Paradoxically, she dabbles earnestly in photography, recording those surfaces that bewilder her so. She dreams of taking a definitive picture of 'the world-renowned reproductive surgeon Dr. Arnold Loquesto, whom I'd consulted and photographed' posing with his dog. Why? Because, with such a picture, 'I would have the answer to the question of how to live in the world.' "Her repeated, obsessive references to her reproductive surgeon betray the narrator's deepest concern without, apparently, her being aware...
...never wallows in self-pity; she wallows, instead, in deracinated compassion for everyone, including herself, who must cope with contemporary reality. Paradoxically, she dabbles earnestly in photography, recording those surfaces that bewilder her so. She dreams of taking a definitive picture of 'the world-renowned reproductive surgeon Dr. Arnold Loquesto, whom I'd consulted and photographed' posing with his dog. Why? Because, with such a picture, 'I would have the answer to the question of how to live in the world.' "Her repeated, obsessive references to her reproductive surgeon betray the narrator's deepest concern without, apparently, her being aware...
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