Gordon is an exquisite chronicler of guilt and regret, and in this flawed, potent novel many of her recurrent preoccupations are on display: a complicated relationship with lust and greed, a belief in the possibility of redemption through love, and the conviction that everything can be explained, if you just listen hard enough.
This strikingly recurrent statement reflects a preoccupation of many contemporary Chinese artists: contending with China's radical transformation in recent years, thanks in large part to garish new architectural projects that appear in conflict with both its landscape and traditional architecture.
THESE preoccupations led to recurrent conflicts in Bach's professional life.
Many patients experience worry, anxious preoccupation with heart functioning, and recurrent chest pain which results in increased health care costs due to frequent hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and cardiac catheterizations [ 7– 9, 19].
"My recurrent tendency to vanish for weeks into my scribbling preoccupations had done it again".
They have a characteristic darkness, of course – the recurrent themes of death, and the passing of time, a still-lingering preoccupation with the metaphor of water – but they seem somehow poppier now, from the steady charge of the first single, Demons, to the late-night, bar-room waltz of Pink Rabbits, via the heartbreaking simplicity of I Need My Girl.
Another big, new preoccupation?
The recurrent images of clashes between hooded demonstrators and police officers defending the barons of global capitalism have become a powerful motif for the protests and preoccupations of a new millennium.
But Matt Matttt was his preoccupation.
