Pointless Life Ambition No. 25

To claim victory; and, indeed, a righteous sense of accomplishment - inasmuch as an accomplishment such as the one to which I refer may be considered a victory (for what man, even among the most modest and unassuming of us, would not take some small pride in achieving what should rightly be considered no small triumph, a tribute to his dexterous mental facility; and in such success, a measure of satisfaction in the recognition and acknowledgement of his peers), though of however little consequence it may prove to be in the grand course of one’s life – in being awarded the inaugural Henry James Award, being in recognition of fabrication of the most verbose, the most labyrinthine, and – of course – the longest single sentence to appear in a weblog in the year in which it is awarded.