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The following text is adapted from Jhumpa Lahiri’s 2003 novel The Namesake. Gogol has recently begun working at an architecture firm in New York.
His contributions are incidental, and never fully his own: a stairwell, a skylight, a corridor, an air-conditioning duct. Still, he knows that each component of a building, however small, is nevertheless essential, and he finds it gratifying that after all his years of schooling, all his crits [reviews] and unbuilt projects, his efforts are to have some practical end.
His contributions are incidental, and never fully his own: a stairwell, a skylight, a corridor, an air-conditioning duct. Still, he knows that each component of a building, however small, is nevertheless essential, and he finds it gratifying that after all his years of schooling, all his crits [reviews] and unbuilt projects, his efforts are to have some practical end.