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Lord Byron: "I have some idea of purchasing the Island of Ithaca
If you can't buy or own an island, you can
"possess" it by taking photographs, thus staking a claim like
millions of others before you.
Who cares if each photograph you take is a cliché? You've
been there, created a memory and a personal association. Your experiences,
perceptions and emotions are- in some sense- unique, even if shared.
If you happen to be on a very small island entirely on your
own, you've had exclusive possession or occupation, if only for half an hour,
and you've effectively enjoyed sole-ownership of a free, vicarious time-share:
your own private, perhaps unforgettable, discovery, exploration or adventure (spiritual, aesthetic or sensual).
Better perhaps, than living there all your life as a monk or
a nun?
Monk at Platytera Monastery:
It depends on what you are angling for in life, or after...(!)
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