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"Study in Perfect" is an exploration of perfection. In "Moving
Horizontal" a Victorian house loses its charm over time, especially
when compared to a modernist contemporary filled with light. Family
life is dense with pleasure, as in the perfect vacation described
in "Marking Time in Door County," and in "Neriage, or What Is the
Secret of a Long Marriage," where an ancient Japanese ceramic
technique has much in common with shaping a close relationship.
There is such a thing as a perfect cup of tea, depending on who is
preparing and drinking it ("Perfect Tea"). And schmaltzy show tunes
flowing froma black-lacquered piano in a Chinese restaurant can be
genuinely moving ("Sentimental a la Carte").
Naturally, Gorham must embrace imperfection. The poisonous
mushrooms in "Darling Amanita" lead to a consideration of our
darker impulses, like obsessive love, even murder. And there is
pain: "The Shape of Fear" relates the story of a child stricken
with a deadly staph infection, as it considers the function and
form of fear. And alcoholism, the family disease no one wants to
talk about, is poised against "The Cat in the Hat, " a story
everyone has read and enjoyed.
"Study in Perfect "winds its way around and through the many
permutations of this most hermetic and exalted concept and proceeds
with the full consciousness that perfection's exact definition is
subjective, reliant on who is speaking, and easily unmoored by
time, geography, and the vagaries of taste.
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Study in Perfect (Paperback)
Sarah Gorham; Series edited by Supriya Bhatnagar; Selected by Bernard Cooper
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Study in Perfect is an exploration of perfection. In "Moving
Horizontal" a Victorian house loses its charm over time, especially
when compared to a modernist contemporary filled with light. Family
life is dense with pleasure, as in the perfect vacation described
in "Marking Time in Door County," and in "Neriage, or What Is the
Secret of a Long Marriage," where an ancient Japanese ceramic
technique has much in common with shaping a close relationship.
There is such a thing as a perfect cup of tea, depending on who is
preparing and drinking it ("Perfect Tea"). And schmaltzy show tunes
flowing from a black-lacquered piano in a Chinese restaurant can be
genuinely moving ("Sentimental a la Carte"). Naturally, Gorham must
embrace imperfection. The poisonous mushrooms in "Darling Amanita"
lead to a consideration of our darker impulses, like obsessive
love, even murder. And there is pain: "The Shape of Fear" relates
the story of a child stricken with a deadly staph infection, as it
considers the function and form of fear. And alcoholism, the family
disease no one wants to talk about, is poised against The Cat in
the Hat, a story everyone has read and enjoyed. Study in Perfect
winds its way around and through the many permutations of this most
hermetic and exalted concept and proceeds with the full
consciousness that perfection's exact definition is subjective,
reliant on who is speaking, and easily unmoored by time, geography,
and the vagaries of taste.
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