"Why didn't they know? ... He could see the darkness of their
souls, the void that drove them to huddle together at all times ...
He saw the souls, too, of all the other swim clubs that he had
joined or visited over the years, clubs filled with equal measures
of hypocrisy, deceit, and meanness, each one seeming to its
members, as primitive societies did to theirs, to be all that there
is, the whole world."
Saturated with what he has learned of Classics and history, a
16-year-old boy reflects upon the flow of recent events in his own
history: his discovering his Irish heritage, his loss of a job, his
receiving an Artistic vocation, his traumatic experiences of
unrequited love. These events become psychic cataclysms that
destroy his traditional worldview and force him to create a new
one. They also teach him what it means to become an Artist and a
man.
Exploiting imagery ranging from Greek mythology to video games
and employing conventional and experimental techniques, "The World"
is a passionate, multi-layered, poetic depiction of an artistic
soul's maturation. Twenty years in the writing, "The World" is a
work that should be read again and again.
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