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Touei

Webster Lake. Summer 1984. Late afternoon. The naked baby is romping about. A naked couple are taking a break. Splashes on the lake. Still, behind the glass, she touches her stomach. From the water emerges the head of a child. She sighs twice. The dream dims. The lake sets. They remain still. The child looks at them and smiles, Touei: the serene, the joyous, the lake as in the trigram of the Chinese I Ching.