Chidi,
I'm surprised at what you say since you Chidi are always responding ( with some tittle-tattle) to comments on your own works.
How do you feel right now? Better? Worse off ?
At least you could should only show appreciation for the poet's illuminating response to Obi's ritual knee-jerking, jerking off like one of Naipaul's mimic men.
Not intellectually lazy or yet brain dead per se, but here, paintpot imagination was only wondering, trying to figure it out (like confronting one of the wonders of New Testament Scripture testifying via the immediacy of the printed word, since Obi is totally there or half there with his reading glasses on, in his "mind's eye" at least to see Jesus "turning" water into the kind of wine he loves to guzzles down - or after the ten plagues taking a deep breath to take or make that existential leap with Moses in flight across the Red Sea, the murderous Egyptians giving chase and what do we have to show for it ? THIS
You know the life of Fela don't you? Even the fate suffered by his sweet mother
That most poignant line, read it again and read what follows:
:
"it was the knife stuck in his back that gave him eyes"
Obi turning his back on the Judeo Christian foundations of Western ( English Language Civilization) of course he's never heard of Judas and so Obi wonders, Obi is not a sucker for mystery, and that's plain to see :
Obi : "One ( i.e.Obi) is forced to wonder, say, how a knife stuck at one's back gives them eyes. Even when we make that metaphorical leap…"
By "One" he means Obi of course because he is certainly not wondering on behalf of Cornelius Agrippa
Without any other guidance or clue from Odia Ofeimun I could see, hear , feel the anguish, that can not be fully understood because it is individual, understand and share, but no stigmata dear Chidi even if you would like to see a sign that I could see, feel, hear and understand because as the man said , " A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign!"
How could Obi the poet ask such a question ? Stick a knife into Obi's back and he will probably be forced to see and some time before the rigor mortis set in perhaps say, Et tu, Brute? The state of course , your Judas
# RE - A Sierra Leone poet Elvis Gbanabom Hallowell . In 2004 when his Drumbeats of War was released it made quite a splash - touched by Ob's babby babble about "dearth of unity," etc etc ete etc , I recall Professor Eldred Jones comments on ""Drumbeats of War"
"By peering "into the dark liquid of the calabash to discover clues to the way forward, but the calabash often gets broken and like the other recurring image of the mirror that looks inwards into the poet and outwards into the world, its broken fragments are painfully pieced together in an effort to compromise his entire vision"
Some good news to cheer us all ( not exactly bad news is it)
FG agrees to pay N88bn compensation to victims of Biafra war
On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 11:36:32 UTC+1, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:
Well, good rejoinder, but I favour no rejoinders from poets on critiques of their works. That to me, would give room to other interpretations that may enrich the works.
CAO.
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