October 11, 2005
Eternal Return to Sender
Booker Prize Goes to Story of Emotional Odyssey, runs the headline in the POR.
Why write the sentence? Is this a surprise, or even a fact, in the sense of something not already given? Doesn't almost every famous literary prize go to an "emotional odyssey" almost ever time? Isn't "emotional odyssey" a kind of shorthand for "the artistic value that we hold in the highest esteem without it rising so high as to become 'elitism'"? Or is it even shorthand? Perhaps it's just all there is to it.
I took my emotion and traveled from island to island, having more and more emotions, and sometimes showing these everpresent and evolving emotions to the people on the islands while I was, you know, trying to get home, where my emotions turned out to want me to go. The world contributed to and witnessed my emotions, for that is the purpose of the world, island after island. In the sea, I was alone with my emotions. and expressing this well turned out to be what great art was. Oh self!, cork in the ocean, you are truly about yourself! And your journey, island to island, heading home, the sea winedark with emotion that has leached from you, oh winedark cork, oh self....
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