I’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
WILLIAM GOLDINGI’ve come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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Honestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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I don’t think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we’re concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
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Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
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He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.
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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
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He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
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