I'm talking about our nation's obsession with being something other than what we are, with dieting and looking different than how we naturally look, and how bad that fixation makes us feel.
Bolaño manages to convince us that the deceptively disparate topics of B's fixations (bad writers, great art, suicide, dictatorship and its victims) are essentially the same subject.
In a prospective study, they treated fractures with known bad prognosis after internal fixation (angulation of more than 30 degrees, comminution of the calcar, small proximal fragment (Alho et al. 1991)) with an Exeter hemiarthroplasty and fractures with a good potential for healing with Olmed screws.
Regret, guilt, and fixation on the bad things that happened in your past can prevent you from moving forward in the present and into the future.
(Quarrington has a peculiar fixation with vividly described bad breath -- Kaz's, Samson's.
For a story about the national fixation on "good blood, bad blood, blue blood," Vine should have noticed that the bloodline had thinned out by the time it produced her narrator.
It is still used as salvage procedure after failed internal fixation in elder patients with bad bone quality.
Other former staff members said that the priests they worked with were immature and confused about their sexuality, and their problem was bad judgment and a lack of impulse control rather than sexual fixation.
The fixation with inequality and income distribution, he says, will produce bad policy.
The multiple U-turns of Littell's Bobby fixation, Tedrow's weirdly scrupulous racism ("I only hate the bad ones," he tells his father) and Bondurant's sentimental attachment to "La Causa" -- these all seem less like organic expressions of personality and more like ways to engineer plot switchbacks and throw wrenches into conspiracies just when they threaten to get too tidy.
