An open letter to a DISTRESSED PRIEST, By Wole Soyinka
My dear Reverend, I assure you that I would not dream of burdening you with an impossible mission which, despite my skeptical attitude to, indeed outright rejection of, the notion of spiritual attacks – strikes me as a valid case for some exorcist rites – no less than of the Devil himself still rampaging his way home from a full-fledged Satanic possession of hundreds, maybe even thousands of “netters”, now entrapped in what strikes me as a St.
Public lies, like flies, beget maggots, so no one should be astonished when a sordid squelch is heard on a casual stroll, and the suppuration fluid spurts out to stain the vestments of the in-nocent.
At this age, one tends to speak more and more to oneself, that being the most dependable, and rationally responsive listener one can hope for in a rapidly changing – some would even claim – disintegrating world.
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