He brought out the stark difference between the artistic prowess in me and the rudderless school boy of yester-years when he conjured up images and motivations through its chief protagonist Obi Okonkwo.
Strange enough, this left me with a deeper and more rewarding appreciation of the place of challenges in the lives of mortals. It further stirred up the literary eye in me to see the unseen and to think the unthought-of.
Nikolai Gogol's' comic and political genius in his satire, The Government Inspector came in calling and left me with an insatiable hunger for more of literary nuggets when he humorously depicted Mayor, the chief protagonist as an honest fool in furthering the theme of corruption in a hierarchical and imperialistic Russian society of the 1850s.
But still, No Longer At Ease remained perched at my highest echelon, while I intermingled my reading with the James Hadley Chase concoction."
- Ikhide
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