In her apartment in Queens, Emma keeps photographs of her children.
She has named them all and keeps photographs of them in albums.
Although press and photographers were banned from the centre where parents of the dead were being kept, photographs of the Bowles family appeared in the Daily Mail.
"It's not a fairy tale, but this has been surreal," said Selby's mother, Maeshon Witherspoon, who keeps photographs of her and Forbes on a wall in her room.
(Carl passed on this Runyonesque enthusiasm to Andrew, who starts his day with the Daily Racing Form and the Thoroughbred Daily News and keeps photographs of favorite horses on his cell phone; visitors to his office sit on a couch positioned so that he can keep an eye on races flickering across a wall-mounted TV).
Ms. Hampton keeps photographs of her husband and children there, along with her iPad, her iPad Mini and her BlackBerry (which serves as her alarm clock), each with its own charger, as well as a riot of cosmetic equipment like tweezers, cuticle clippers and a magnifying mirror.
Once you know that Susan Sontag chose to have Leonard Woolf, of all writers, read to her as she lay dying, that John Updike plotted Couples in church, or that Maurice Sendak kept photographs of the body of his partner of 50 years, you can't ever forget it.
Yet the presiding sensibility belongs to editor Georges Bataille - sometime librarian, failed priest and pornographer - a man whose essays drew hallucinatory perceptions from such mundane phenomena as dust and saliva, and who kept photographs of real-life torture and mutilation on his desk, claiming to see 'true ecstasy' in the victims' faces.
In her small cabin, she keeps photographs on the desk of her husband and their two sons.
Russian intellectuals always seem to display pictures not only of the family but also of their cultural icons; Larissa kept photographs above her desk of John Meyendorff and another venerable Orthodox thinker, Alexander Schmemann.
