Glass did not attend the tiebreaker. He watched CNN’s coverage from home, which meant that instead of hearing a museum representative discuss the Bowl’s symbolism — she read a quote of Glass’s in which he explained that “Clay vessels, like boats, carry cargo — the cargo of ideas and opportunities” — he could only hear the CNN commentators blather on about the election.
Someone in Richmond swished the Amazon canisters around in the Bowl. Alcorn, the Board of Elections chairman, plucked out one canister and opened it.
The winner was Yancey, the Republican.
The moment of the Bowl was over, and now it was time to stop thinking about thoughtful Virginia artists whose work represents ideas and opportunities and to go back to obsessing over whatever else it is that we have to constantly worry about these days.
God, 2018 is only four days old and it feels like it’s been 200 years.
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