Oneself in a Word
I am charmed and inspired by the answer Einar Økland gives an interviewer in last week’s Dag og Tid:
– If you were to sum yourself up in a word, which would it be?
– Colon [:].
–???
–A colon has something on either side of it, open to what comes in and what goes out. But it is an articulation made in retrospect. One doesn’t know what one takes in until one releases it, until afterwards. An alternative answer could have been ‘full stop’. A full stop has no extension and can be both a beginning and an end.
