The trouble starts at the moment when you get the crazy idea that not
winning a prize means you're no good. It doesn't mean that at all. I
have been a member of several judging panels. I have witnessed the
strange dynamic of their functioning. Forces that outsiders can't even
conceive of are at work in those meeting rooms. Under all their
beautiful intelligent reasoning, prize judges, like people in every
sphere of action, are driven by unconscious urges. How could it be
otherwise? They are not sphinxes, or oracles, or disembodied spirits.
They are people, subject to moods, full of contradictions and
unacknowledged emotions and thwarted longings of their own.
Only a mediocre person
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