Things Fall Apart

"If I hold her hand
She says 'Don't touch!'

If I hold her foot
She says 'Don't touch!'

But when I hold her waist-beads
She pretends not to know."

Village song in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.

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"Uzowulu's body, do you know me?"

"How can I know you, father? You are beyond our knowledge," Uzowulu replied.

"I am Evil Forest. I kill a man on the day that his life is sweetest to him."

Ch.11 Things Fall Apart. Villagers counseling their god "Evil Forest".
Chinua Achebe R.I.P