Carol Emshwiller - Acceptance Speech

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CAROL EMSHWILLER

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

NOBLE POETS OF THE consortium:

You have conferred upon me your highest honor, you have called me, in your own

words, Most Noble of the Noble (though "words" is hardly the proper way to

refer

to what you call your parts of speech, so, rather, your syllables, your

prefixes, your signs and signals), and I have already made the accepting

gestures as well as I can manage them.

Now, in order to know your strange yet "Humble Master" better, you have asked

for my alien view of the story of how I came to be your leader. I will tell

you.

I came here, as you all know, as a mere specimen -- a spot -- a "speck," as

you

have called me; kidnapped from my world. I jumped through the right door on

the

first try -- ran the maze, jumped to the proper ledge, escaped pain (at least

for the moment). Though our noses are not as keen as yours, I could smell the

rot behind that door -- the sea-like rot that seemed to me might mean freedom.

It turned out to be a feeding trough. I did not eat. At least not then.

But I have come to be a new meaning in your land, which is sweet to me to be

and

even more so because I will eat, now, nothing but the roots of lilies and the

blossoms of squash, or, rather, what, on my world, would seem to be the

equivalent of these things.

Here, not everything is strange to me. There are small things that might as

well

be cats. There are fish. The only difference is that they can fly as well

through air as through water so one sees fish sitting in the trees preening

themselves, which is a strange sight to me. The trees not unlike those from my

own home world, though I've seen none taller than a tall man. The land, at

least

in this area, is flat and every few yards there is another stream to cross.

This

I've seen though not experienced. Before, I wasn't important enough to walk

the

land, and now I'm too important for it and will be carried along in a sort of

upright barrel with a little tent over it in case it rains, which it often

does.

It was my curls that started you off about me. Curls are rare among you. You

call them "curls of the dreamers that come from having dreamed. Curls," as you

say, "of creativity." It is by my curls that I came to be in the magnificent

fat

state I'm in now. It is by them that I have been raised up to this point. Now

will be my poems that will fly from your mastheads, hang over your doorways,

carried through your streets on banners, and worn across the tops of your

caps.

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