The Casanova Embrace (1978)
The Casanova Embrace
“He slanted it in the direction of the window light, as if the natural, now fading light might offer more insight than the yellowish lamplight that arched over the table.
Perhaps he was missing something, he asked himself, although the question had become the essence of his enigma. He was a fish in strange waters. The truth of that undermined all of his previous self-praise about his professionalism, his thoroughness. His superiors had cited him again and again for what they believed was his ins...tinctive understanding of human frailty, human motivation, human psychology. And he had accepted these honors, believing them. This Palmero case only reinforced what he had secretly begun to believe about himself--his own ignorance, his incompetence. It was, he knew, a strong condemnation. But no one was bugging his brain and he could afford to be honest with himself. No textbook could provide more than surface answers to human passions.
Miranda's picture revealed nothing, a flat image, devoid of humanity, and he did not have the imagination to superimpose it with life.MoreLess
Perhaps he was missing something, he asked himself, although the question had become the essence of his enigma. He was a fish in strange waters. The truth of that undermined all of his previous self-praise about his professionalism, his thoroughness. His superiors had cited him again and again for what they believed was his ins...tinctive understanding of human frailty, human motivation, human psychology. And he had accepted these honors, believing them. This Palmero case only reinforced what he had secretly begun to believe about himself--his own ignorance, his incompetence. It was, he knew, a strong condemnation. But no one was bugging his brain and he could afford to be honest with himself. No textbook could provide more than surface answers to human passions.
Miranda's picture revealed nothing, a flat image, devoid of humanity, and he did not have the imagination to superimpose it with life.MoreLess
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