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Betsy Warland
Oscar, part 3
By
Betsy Warland
(January 12 - 15, 2008 / revised April 2008)
Category: Oscar’s anathema.
Although others’ descriptives for her loneness change over the years – stubborn, independent, odd, rebellious, imaginative, contrary, arrogant, headstrong, different, unrealistic – they all signal the same condition: one who does not play enough by the rules.
Categories being embodiment.
Of rules.
Being self-regulating.
Automatic surveillance system.
Oscar looks the word up in her dictionary.
Category; “Any of the basic classifications into which all knowledge can be placed.”
An impossible notion. Even perilous one.
The impulse of category more “not” than “is.”
Then there. In the etymology: “Greek kategoria, from kategorien, to accuse: kata – against + agorein, to speak publicly, from agora, assembly.”
…to accuse, speak publicly against from assembly…
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