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It has a weekly medical advice column, of which the last two subjects have been pancreatitis and optical neuritis, and an occasional books column that, this week, discussed a book titled The Immortal Body , an anthology of erotic letters, in a review that began, "Sexuality, sensuality, passion, and pleasure have always been the main preoccupation of young Cuban writers."
Thus, the title becomes equally appropriate as an umbrella for Anna's story, its consequences on her contemporaries, and the novel's preoccupation with the agrarian defection from that society of (Tolstoy's stand-in) Levin.
Vaughan's preoccupation leads him to not only ponder the sexually charged road deaths of the famous (James Dean, Jayne Mansfield, Albert Camus), but to hang around accident sites, photographing them and later replicating the contorted postures of the victims in his trysts with prostitutes.
Though KSM speculates about how Bin Ladin came to share his preoccupation with attacking America, Bin Ladin in fact had long been an opponent of the United States.
What has replaced it is a cultural insider's sort of academic preoccupation: a task-specific, in-the-know concern with successfully negotiating the key junctures--mainly, college admission.