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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.

William Golding

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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.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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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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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
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Blow Come Back Conch
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
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Come Dustbin Fly High Sleep Stuff Unsort Upet Wind
Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.
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Children Disease Grow Out Sickness
Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
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Course Experience Feast Life Series Serve
It wasn’t until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you’ve got to write your own books and nobody else’s, and then everything followed from there.
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But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
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Forgiveness Given Must Receive
Life’s scientific, but we don’t know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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Certainty Know Life Mean Scientific
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
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The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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Greatest Ideas Simplest
If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
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Above Anything Below Face Facem Different When
Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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