Chasing the Phantom
Looking for the Snow Leopard |
A Twenty-five year Odyssey - A Search for Meaning
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| Traveling, real traveling, is a journey into the mind and heart, as well as a journey into time and space. They are parallel, but somewhat separate, adventures. There is a third kind of journey though which sometimes begins much later; this is the process where the bits and pieces of our inner and outer worlds are compared and assembled in new ways, and out of which meaning is, slowly and with effort, wrung. The bits are personal memories and philosophical speculations, but also antecedents – the journeys of others before. These are the bits gleaned from myth and literature, matched and compared with one’s own. They can come from many sources, and they may stretch back through a long lineage, all the way back to the oldest written story, also the narrative of a quest, The Epic of Gilgamesh. This assembling of the pieces, and giving voice to its construction, is what my kind of writing, creative nonfiction, means to me. Eduard Fischer |  |