uild upattedilllc owards the· final. that method . .._ · the country,and dential elections. a reas, five ,copies >y the opl)O$itioa contain identica) ~ I seventh, heldby l 0 will be foun,ho . i 1wo or three ...,.19 f

....... ~ •. t g the elections'-5 ~ tern press. 1-t It for the '1oll1 ne. And itis~ did The Obsaw, 1he Yoruba Slalcl nee. The first.as :gan in Niger,•a ·

considered ,·,an the NPN •. tit

?ust appears totle-1 far in posscs$io1( f . ~ , .. -e in Borno state, I on a crowd of ~ 1ly lynched,andin , gola. In several 1a ve been rejected

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·Much of his (Shagari·s) success can be attributed 10 his ability 10 project himself above his party - inJeed a lmost abo\'t' politics - which a rc far less popular than he is. His wkrance. modesty a nd per~onal mtcgrity ha\·c a lso helped and he has ma naged. as no o ther Nigerian leader has . t,1 reach across 1hc still formiJable barrier, of tribe. language a nd ro:ligion.'

That is the image which the Wc~tern press wants its readership 10 accept. l:\'cr~ ai.: l. and nearly every pronou nccmrnl . llfS hagari sin.:e he 100k of11c,: belie, thl''l' c.:la1111s. We challenge the writer oftho.,l' 1111rds to 1ra1 cl 1hrnugh Nig,:na and haH' that pnnra11 1 ra n,lalcd in 111 the \ a nou, l;1 ngua!!l'' · l hen wa1d1 for r,:act inns. Shagari·, ;111t i-1nhali,m was no doubt prown 1\11,: 11 hl· ca111pa1)-!nl·d 111 his home ,talc ofS11ko1n. and appL·akd ,11 crnJ,:ly in hlllh rl'lig11111s and lnha l scniimcnis 1hal mos! papers .:asl igati.:d him. includ ing th,: non-partisan a nd Wllkl> n:spcct,:d (Nigo:rian) (i1wrcl1t111 . His tolerance has hcl·n umkrscorl·d h~ l11s cons1an1 lhl"l'ah 10 us,: a 'h1g slid.· ,111 1h11,l· who opposed 111111. and h~ l11s hah11 dunn!!

~ -; campaigns 111 l.lo,tik ,talcs 111' w;rrn1ng tha l they woulJ ,ont 1nul' 10 l11s<' hcndit, hccausl'

~ of their ·c,111l ro111a1ronal" a llllmk s. l'a hap, ,, h1~ silcnu · 11\'l'r h1dt·ous p11hn• massacn:s i , ud1 a~ 1001-.. p lace 111 Ba l-..olori and thl' -NPN parties. In - - --­

Bendel. where no 1ole Soyinka nmediately to the - --'-- --- ---------- - ------------- - - -

flllllll'rtlll\ political assassinations ca rried ,nil h_v h" party d u1111g !ht: countdown hdorl' l'kl' t11111, 1, 111, wa~ 11! hl' 111g abo1 <' u tisanship of the :,1>111111ion. D..:nia l was imposs1hk and was

1rmy units, 4hree. :1l'r ;111cmp1 cd cith..:r by th..: NPN or by ;,: jointly resolved tDl·CO. that impart ia l national arhit..:r of ons. Yet normally 't p<>lll icil rnmp..:1i 11011 .

such as Thr Cr1 1a in programm..:s of an l r- Nl'N Jc the world that a n11 •11cnt~ cons1a111 ly rrked Sha!!a ri', diqu..: :mocrat ic event is - 1··"' of m~ son!!s n nuall> beca m<' ,us nation of the ilr11c.:al a nthl·m~ for slllll<' ol" these stations. cpressible Shagari ,11 ,urpnsingly. the governmo:nt ha~ nHn..:d ,e thatourswould :i.:n11,wu1 io 11allv 10 , ik nc.:e thcs,: stations. ,r other African indd and Omit; Sta tions h;iv,: hccn s..:o cd

·,d c.:111\Cd down by troop, nn the ord,:r or' rved the resulls. ;J~an. anJ a rurihi.:r 1hri.:a1 has been made NPN leaders and '·n~11ual Timi'.\ . 20 Au1ws1) Ill clos,: d llwn it was the state- :~hn s1a11ons hecaus~ of their ·1111:itinL?·

>n stations which ··111d..:s. ' 111nouncement of Thr move towards the dosun: o r those :tic to its listeners; lie-, ,wncd media was fon:~,:cn anJ we can asts alerted the 'ldt l't simi lar a ctions acain sl t h..:

· ·1 cc. for · ant v1g1 an of ~"111011 press. lt:ading or cou rse 10 1hi.: .econd week 111rng of so-ca lled independen t press. Thl· g 1he prepat210l"Y '--'ar,a ls took place al vanous pt.:riod, el~ctions-~n •Ting the pas! four years m pu rsuit of tho: rv1cc rc~eated: ~ 1gn111cn1 given lO lnspcc1or-Gcnnal ed consptratona :nda\ Adcwusi. head of the Nigerian hierarchy andtoP jlrcl· ·h ,rce and well-known storm -trooper There was ~~ i;,111--1 the free prt.:ss . The cont..:mpl w11 h

L·re named, ~ l1ch \dcwusr·, command has 1rea1i.:d 1h..: j roles. mcth <hu:1rv Ju ring Shagari' , tenure of ollin· !encyplans.Jt~ ::no\l'j the l:.i, 1 douhl ahou l Shagan·s 1uman greed. .1u

115 'an, lor civil libenv or the constitut ion iflw

ion and fck)nlO tcccJ , . through. a sewnd 1,:rm. in ~ ltcn.:hing himself fully in power. W hile

hundreds art: hi.:i n!-! krlkd o\'t'r 11to:,L· i.:kc tions - !ht· ma joril \ ot 1111.: rn caused tn the indiscriminalo:. ww;mll~ tiring or ;11111 ;­ma iic wea pons by ,\tkwus1·s un1 1'onnnl thugs - '/hi' O/J.1e•n ·a c.:11rrcspondrnl. tilin).! from Lagos. c,1111 1nui.:, lo 1ma)-!i.:-hu ild Shaga ri fookd - !!t:llllrnl'ly I ht>fll' - b~ ihl' Hvd,: fac..: of Shaga n ·, .lckyll-and- 1 lytk polit ical pt.:r,onal 11 y. (.'la11ns Jo hn Jc Si .lorre:

State Governor election resu Its Compari son between the FEDl:CO results and the polling booth figures for the two leading partres in the sta te, of Ondo ;111d Oyo: also the numbers of votes cakula tcd subsequently by the Ondo Stale ekction tribunal :

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krl<I\\ n a, I ' ( · 1'. ,..- . 1h1"r ln1 rarh p11lh11!! hnl h. , 1/!nrd h~ pan~ ~!!rn1, and Hl·turnin!! 011,n·r: l'l· Dl·.CO lr11m 11"1·11 A/m·a 22.K.X.1: rk.:uon rrrbu nal trom ll"c'.1/ A/n,11 l '-1.9.X)

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k111 "' tha t Shl'1111 'shagar I h:r, pr<·,1,kd 1111 l11u1 \l";II' Ill L'I l lw 11111st lll1Sl'l ll)lll l1111, and 111, al1;1 hk 111hh,·I\ , ,111'111111 1111 1ha1 lhL· 11al1<111 ha, c'll'I l-1101\11 . I l r, p11,1-l'il'L"lft111 hra\;1d11 111 ,·;il lt n!-! 1111 th<· ll'''!-!na1 11 111 ,,1 all hr, M11ll'l<''' a nd 01hn p11ltt!l'a l ;1 pp111nll'<'' 1, the l~prc;tl !!<''1111,· 111 ;1 l·11111 rein ! k adl'f I\ ho wan t, IP p;t" 1h..: h11l·l- 111 hr, 1' ill11" <·rsh1p l11r pa,1 n111111 111u, m1w1111dur1. :\,, :-; iµe1 ra n r, l11okd.

i\111 all' :\1)-!LT1i111' 1111da an~ 1lluS1on ah11111 th,· t·,1 ,t e111.:c- ,,1 Sh;1µ; 11 ,·, hl u,·p1 1111 IPt la,cl'lll. l·tm,·1111~ h,· 111!-! put 111111 l' l;ll·lfL'L'. I h.11 1111)\ :\1!-!,·11.111, 1hr 111, ..:h l', L·:rn prn ..:111 ;1 lasc l\l 1a kl'-<l\L' f is;1 !ar t th<'\ al,11 r,·ct1)-!llf 'l' and h;I\L' hc').'lln 111 p1L·p;11 <' 1<1 1. :--.r)-!l'rran, ar l' a polll1l·alh , 11phr,11rall'd p<'11 pk: lh<·> a1<· 11111 c1111 1..:111 111 acn:pl 11a\l'slll'S o l dcmoc.:r;111c proc.:l'"l' ' \\)11ch 11<1 ,;1nl' part\ Ill powl·r 111 lhl' llK 111 l hl' l 'S

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would dare ro foist on even its own under­privileged sections of the population. Talk to those gnarled peasants and workers. ancient patriarchs and matriarchs. patiently waiting on the voting queues for hours in Nigeria and they will astonish you with their grasp of the political issues under contention! It is insulting and patronising to ask the average Nigerian to accept what the factory worker in the Midlands would not tolerate. all in the name of the 'nasccni' condition of Democracy in the Third World - a media fantasy of the Western world. a residue of the Western justification for colonisation ,ind post-colonial interven­tions.

Time and time again. African peoples h:ivc been 1hwarted in their resolve to create a new social order. Ewry time the Western pn:s~. with it.~ love of the status quo. ha~ found arguments or double standards for legitimising the intolerable. even if 'democracy' has had to he re-defined in the proces~. When the extreme consequence -vioknce - can no longer be ignored. it is either underplayed or libelled as the eruption of tribal antagonisms. Straw· figures arc decked out in appropriate virtuou~ terminologies and the masses. in effect. invited to admire. adjust. and count their blessings. Not this time! Our reading is that this time round. with a background ofa costly civil war and thirteen years of military rule. for the masses of Nigerians. half a loaf is no longer better than anything ...

It was not the Western press alone that was guilty of the programme for Shagari's international acceptance. Radio Cameroon. in what could only be understood as preparatory softening-up· of international opinion for an act of sordid collusion. can claim discredit for being the first African radio station to broadcast the false results.

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barely 24 hours after the end of polling. This station was specially monitored .as we did possess information about Shehu Shagari's diplomatic assurances to certain 'friendly' sister nations about the foregone electoral conclusion. Radio Cameroon announced that Shagari was leading by seven states to three over its combined opponents. Among the states credited to Shagari were Kano, Bendel. Ondo. Cross River and - wait for it - Lagos! Let no one be deceived. the elections are yet not over even for Lagos state. The master plan merely employs variations. it never deviates!

Perhaps the international press has a role to play in the prevention of such an apocalyptic prospect; perhaps not. Judging by the vanity of political leaders everywhere and their need for some kind of international acceptability. however spurious. we cannot totally ignore the

is living in a world peopled by ghosts: the sad· prospect is that he is equally ben t on transforming the nation into a land of ghosts, a ghost of itself, a ghost of its potential and logical expectations.

I believe that a civil war has been set in motion by Shehu Shagari and the hierarchy of the NPN. The preliminary skirmishes should be recognised for what they are _ mere skirmishes. The responsibilit\ for bloodshed is unambiguously that · of a rejected misfit who bungled his chance to make a positive contribution to Nigeria's history. and now abuses the state machinerv to re-entrench himself and his unpat rioti~ party in office. Our modest demand from the outside world in the forthcoming struggle is that the foreign press should not constitute itself part of that machincrv. in contradiction of those laws and u;ages which it vigorously applies to its own pol ity.•

possibi lity of the effectiveness of the .----------------­international media on specific actions of some leaders. the extremes of which they may help to avoid. and their early recognition of the danger zone of brinkmanship. If, for example. even Shagari's most ardent admirers among election-watchers had had the courage to point out to him that no one anywhere in the world would believe that the population of an obscure ward (Modakeke) within a constituency (Oranmiyan North I). a ward with no industry. no labour-intensive project of any nature whatever. a ward with under 700 dwellings at the last count. many of them abandoned because of the perpetual feud between the lfe people and the Modakeke - if Shagari's international praise-singers had cautioned him that his fellow-Nigerians are not such cretins as to accept that such a ward, in effect a disaster area. would leap from a population of 50.000 in 1979 to 220,000 in 1983; from 4,500 recorded voters in 1979 to a purported 188,000 in 1983, if this common-sense caution had been administered to Shehu Shagari at the appropriate time, seven prominent politicians would not have been burnt alive in a Kombi bus just before the elections, some 30 lfe/Modakeke citizens and policemen would not be lying in the mortuaries at this very moment and scores of buildings in that area would not have been turned to rubble.

I teach in lfe. I know Modakeke like the palm of my hand and it cannot boast even 10.000 citizens of voting age. A thousand and more Modakeke were created in the voting register of Nigeria, spanning the entire land, in order to provide Shehu Shagari his 'landslide' victory. A ghost population of millions to defy the political will of several millions flesh-and-blood, who braved unbelievable brutalities to casf their votes for a change. It is obvious that Shagari

Albanian prisons Dr Nicolaos Stavrou. professor of international relations at Howard University. Washington. has written a report describing in unprecedented detail the repression and the day-to-day lives of Albania's estimated 40.000 political prisoners. At the heart of the Albanian <Jtilag are six prisons - 'the heavy six' containing a total of 4,300 prisone rs convicted of serious political crimes. They are at Burelli. Vlona, Tirana, Kruja. Martanesh and Spach. Inmates are kept in solitary confinement for months at a time. At Burelli and Martanesh there are special punishment cells, one metre squar and two metres high, in the courtyard. Nicknamed the 'Beroutsa·, Albanian slan for 'cloak', they are made of heavy bolte boards with narrow spaces betwern them for ventilation. They are so small prisoners cannot lie down. At Burell i. a special wing of the prison, known as the 'Stalin annexe', houses 1.000 women. There are separate prisons for nearly · every category of prisoner, even a special place for 'senior citizens'. Definitions of 'political crime', Stavrou says, are all­embracing. One man was imprisoned for 'refusing to drink the health of Enver . Hoxha' (the Albanian leader). another to displaying 'too much enthusiasm· during a performance by a Greek folk group. A third was jailed for attempting to 'steal and hide a church bell'. Albania is officially a n atheist state. All forms of religious observance are forbidden. Man individuals of all faiths and denominations have been imprisoned_ because of their religious beliefs. foreign priests have been expelled and native priests condemned to death o r prison.

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VIEWPOINT

lrns ai!mental dea BY WOLE SOYINKA

AN unusual exercise took place some years ago at the Ibadan end of the Ex­

pressway Toll-Gate. A number of private indi­viduals, school-teachers, businessmen, a sprinkling of prelates, varsity lecturers, en­gineers, architects, magistrates, lawyers etc. etc. participated; armed ·with nothing more than note-pads, for.ms . printed leaflets and visual-aid material. They were assisted by a handful of men in orange-khaki uniform, black beret; the insignia on their shoulders was the logo of a leaping dog and the phrase Gbekude (Keep Death Chained!). Those uniformed men were also called, thanks to the logo of that leaping dog, Majamaja .

They were also called a number of names far far worse, some of them richly deserved. For those who need reminding, such names were, (and' still are) deservedly borne by the Police, Custpms, bank clerks, Post Office workers, Im­port Licence officials, WAI prosecutors, Minis­ters and their servants of the last regime, Assemblymen, lobbyists etc etc. In short, the Gbekude proved themselves every bit as Nige­rian as the people they served. However, back to this exercise:

What these enthusiasts - both the regular and the "special" (civilian) Marshals - did was as follows: Beginning from about 8 o'clock in the morning, they began to stop all "luxury" buses passing through the toll-gate - Njikoka, Ekene Dili Chukwu, The Young Shall Grow, Eze Chukwu, Plateau Bus Service, Bendel Line etc. etc. The buses were made to park on one side and each was then boarded by one uni­formed and one civilian Marshal. They pro­ceeded to search the front sector of the bus for clubs, whips, alcohol and any other suspicious looking object. The Special Marshal addressed the passengers, apologised for the delay and assured them that it would only last a few mi-nutes.

If however, a~y incriminating object was found with the driver or his conductor, it was his duty to t!!II them that their delay might last just a little longer. In either case, the uniformed Marshal led down the driver and his conductor to a special room (kindly loaned by police post) while the Special Marshal distributed leaflets, questionnaires, lectured the passengers about what to look out for in their driver's conduct, answered questions and generally tried to put the passengers at their educative ease.

In the meantime, what was happening to the driver and his mate? Well, very little ·untoward - IF no dangerous drug or weapon was found in their possession. In such cases, the delay only lasted some 10 minutes. The vehicle· papers were examined-the driver's licence especially was checked to ensure that it was not forged. The Road Safety Corps had by then uncovered a number of forgery syndicates and had their serial numbers. Tyres were checked for bald-

. ness, trafficat9i:s, mirrors etc also given atten-

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tion. If both driver and vehicle were clean, they .were simply given a letter to their employers inviting them to visit Oyo State Road Safety headquarters for a meeting. The Corps would explain to them the nature of its work and out­line its plans for'terminating the tyrannic reign of the so-called "luxury bus" drivers and their conductors.

"Luxury" bus terrorism, with its accompani­ment of fatalities had reached such a level that action had to be taken, and in a LANGUAGE WHICH THE PERPETRATORS WOULD UNDERSTAND. And they DID understand. First of all they fled. Oyo State roads were for quite a while disencumbered of those graceless monsters with their eardrum-splitting klaxons - another weapon of disorientation which they employed for their illegal tactics. But finally. they returned. Chastened, cooperative, recog­nising themselves as no more immortal or pri­vileged than other road-users. They had LEARNT to obey the rules.

Then the NPN wreckers came in all their power. Fearing (according to the private con­fession of one of their Inner Caucus) that the activities of the Road Safety Corps would im­pede the illegal movement of ballot boxes on the roads of Oyo State, Shagari's government began by exhuming a colonial law which assigned the control of Federal Highways to the Ministry of Works or those designated under his authority. That was Stage One. Oyo State (and other) Road Safety Corps were driven off the Federal Highways - the very place where the uttermost-haemorrhage which it was cre­ated to staunch - regularly took place.

But that perversion of a political party was not content. It organised its thugs, bribed Motor Drivers' Unions to launch a campaign of terror against the Corps - uniformed and civi­lian. A female Magistrate was attacked in day­light in the heart oflbadan; hercar damaged by hired hands of these unspeakable cowards whose daily individual resources were indi­vidually 10 times the annual resources of the entire Road Safety Corps. Even the Police Commissioner of the state auctioned away his conscience. On the occasion of this recent dis­aster, I seize the chance to pay tribute to the

courage of that handful of men and women who refused to quit the roads until the Corps d~mi~e became a legal fiat.

Of course, even before and with Gbekude at the prime of its powers, terrible road tragedies did occur. So the point is not to claim that, with the murder of Road Safety Corps movement in Oyo and other states, the chickens are coming home to roost. I merely wish to contribute this footnote to the catalogue of disasters commi t­ted by Saint Shagari - of which of course he was always blithely ignorant . The NPN was the only party in this nation's history which did not build anything. It concentrated money and power simply in desrroying what others had laboured to build. And the harvest is here - in the economy, health, opportunity, and the security of life and limb on our roads .

I regret to admit that my mood, on reading and seeing photos of these incessant slaughters is not one of sorrow, but of anger. For I know, despite the plethora of Road Safety punditry which assail our journals - many of which prefer to ignore the contributions of the Road Safety Corps - a beginning was made. It is a little disconcerting to read lengthy articles which merely propose, in detail, what the Road Safety Corps had actually been doing , with varying degrees of success, for several years before its destruction . But then of course, Nige­rians do spend much of their time re-inventing the wheel. ·

Profiting from this most recent tragedy at Obudu Hill, is it possible perhaps that this gov­ernment put into practice one of the many proposals which the Road Safety Corps failed to bring to legislation - compulsory speed reg­ulators for public passenger transport. This is at least one measure which is practical and en­forceable. If a decree was passed today , giving all public transporters six months to equip their vehicles with speed regulators so that the vehi­cle cannot move beyond a certain speed limit, we know, from our experience, that transport owners would happily cooperate and even beat the deadline. Most of these "luxury" buses are assembled in Nigeria anyway. The decree would ensure also that no vehicle leave the assembly plant in future without a regulator. And of course no vehicle would be licenced for any form of public transportation without this simple equipment.

That little, just for a start. Then perhaps this regime would get down seriously to tackling, even more methodically than Oyo and other states could do, and at a national level, the task of undoing the crime against humanity which was so blithely committed by the government of Shehu Shagari. In the meantime the nation con­tinues to die by instalment, and it is poor con­solation that we know who our murderers are.

Soyinka Is a columnist with ~ The African Guardian Tl,

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VIEWPOINT

ns he rees? BY WOLE SOYINKA

THERE is a road in the residential area of the University of Ife

through which I have sworn NEVER AGAIN to drive. This road was·where, until last year, I lived and the cause is the transformation which has taken place, in such a short spell, within that very en­vironment. History - ecological .history - had again repeated itself!

Before I moved to my last abode in Ife, I had occupied a bungalow in one of the branches of what was then Road 7. A few weeks after my successor moved in, I had the misfortune to drive through that same

' road - I failed to recognise my former 1 residence. Every trace of vegetation had

been wiped clean. Shrubs, trees, benign and malignant growth, even the produc­tive palm tree - EVERYTHING had been razed to the ground in an orgy of arboriphobia. I could understand a fear of werepe (stinging pod) creepers too

close to the house; I could understand the elimination of dangerous thorn-bushes which even seasoned hunters learn to re­spect; I could accommodate the morbid fear of snakes and therefore, the pruning of branches which overhung the house. But why, why the wanton murder of mag­nificent, monumental growths which alone rescue mass-designed residences from that dehumanising uniformity that institutions inflict on those who must, for practical convenience , inhabit them.

Universities are public property. The staff pay rent, that is , they hire the houses

' from the university. They occupy these , houses for periods as little. as one semester

and as long as their entire teaching career. AT ALL TIMES, these quarters that is , both the concrete structure and the nature space that surrounds it remain the proper­ty of the university. An occupant is 'not permitted to dismantle a wing of the edi­fice and re-erect it in his hometown . He cannot simply walk off with the roof and transfer it to his country-house. (Oh yes, we know a don or two who have actually attempted and even succeeded in so doing, but I refer to the principle of the thing.) Similarly, an occupant is not

, allowed to set fire to his guest quarters or his living room ~imply because he does not like the furniture. ! Now, most of these universities actuallv

! maintain what are va riously called Estat~ i Departments or Parks and Gardens etc. ·1 etc. Their duties involve campus landscap­

. ing, maintenance of botanical gardens,

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nurturing of horticultural nurseries and supply of their products to households, faculties and new structures.

Other tasks include the itemisation and indeed, LABELLING of trees both by thei r local and their technical (botanical) names. In other words, most campuses actually invest time, labour and finance in preserving the ecological attractions of their real estate. It is thoughtless to assume that the nature specifics of such environ­ments are simply accidental, to be taken for granted, disposed of at will and whim. Tenants come and go; the property re­mains for generations to inhabit and admire. As for the authorities, a liassez­faire attitude to what, in effect, is the re­sult of man's appropriation and exploita­tion of Nature's gifts is an irresponsible, prodigal attitude. An organ created to maintain environmental sanity labours and creates, then individual birds of pas­sage are permitted to destory, to mutilate beyond repair? Just what sort of estate management is that supposed to be?

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Yes indeed. trees must often make way for human demands. I recall , for instance, when we converted what was originally i.ntended to be a motor-cycle parking space into the Okot p'Bitek Rotunda, an adjunct of Oduduwa Hall. There was this arrow-straight specimen, a favourite shel­ter for student placards, kola-nut sellers and newsvendors. Additionally, it cast its generous shade over the Rotunda itself. To be on the safe side, we took counsel from Parks and Gardens; they declared the tree safe from the extremest rage of weather. For a vear or two that tree was an integral element in the spatial presence of the Rotunda. Then, its roots began to rip up the foundations of the structure. Again we took counsel. It was a painful decision but. the tree had to go. But now let us follow this with a contrasting example.

Again it was close to the Rotunda , across road 3 from Oduduwa Hall. I was driving past one morning when I saw bull­dozers at their favourite work against a time-honoured tree expanse through which students passed between their halls and lecture rooms. I stopped. spoke to the

site engineer and discovered that a new building was to go up in this humanised space. It sounded unbelievable. Unife happens to be one campus which has no shortage of space. I had witnessed its plan­ning from the old Ibadan campus under Professor Ajose, translated into its later environmental wonder by Professor Olu­wasanmi.

And now, after all the ecological depre­dations from one end of the campus to the other, this space which acted as transition between students community and the world of lectures , tests and other academic "aggro" was about to be wiped out! Emergency (and somewhat unortho­dox) measures were promptly taken · to ensure that the bulldozers stopped exactly where they were. One cannot and should not even attempt to quantify the gains of such minute parts within the entirety. For it is not simply the sum of parts , but the relationship of parts that constitutes environment - any neophyte of environ­mental studies knows that. And this means that whenever a part is removed, the whole loses more than the mere vaiue of the part. And it is because one is no longer interested in dealing with the phil­listinic response, the obtuse, ego-centred response such as "Everyone has his own taste," "One man's meat ... " etc. etc. that I choose to pose the question in strictly legalistic terms: " Who owns the trees?" "Do you have the law on your side when you destroy what belongs to all?"

I understand that visitations are doing the rounds of campuses at the moment. Since , dear visitor, you cannot hack your way through our dense forests of academic chicanery and bureaucratic lla­nas to bare essentials , may I humbly recommend to your attention this issue which is so much easier to grasp ? Intellec­tual voids are the most pertinacious non­matter for legal minds to contend with, but physical voids at least protest by their palpable, irrefutable statements . So, forget the contracts and conditions of ser­vice and sleazy politicking in matters of promotions and appointments etc. etc. Simply take a walk around the campus you once knew (I hope) some 10 to 20 yea rs back. Then take the Directo r of Parks and G ardens aside and ask the question: ··Who, actually, owns the trees?''

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As shou ld :.~~ ·~xpected 'on their own homeground the Yoruba gods, despite det~~riiined assaul t by foreign faiths, have not undergone any syncretic fusio n with other gods and de ities, a development whirh is natural enough in Latin America-Brazil mos t conspicuously-where Yoruba dei~irs have become fused, even formally, with Roman C atholic saints. This was the clandestine mechanism adopted by African slaves in order to preserve thei r religious faiths in face of repression by the Church · in their ni,u.n.trics of enforn•d L'xile, unly to be ,1stonishcd by the ,1doption of the syn,;·e·t'ic hybrids by t he ir once horrified m,1sters .

On the African continent, however, not only do the ,indent religions of its peoples .,t,~riv e today in the ir pristine forms, they also exist side by side with alien religions such as Christianity and Islam w ith their own plurality ofi.sects and creeds. The Yoruba p,rn theon is part icula rly fecu nd and comple~,, the god OGUN being one in a hier,1rchy of fou r prindpJl deities, exe'r-ting patronage and protection over his own sphere of huma n .ictivities and tendencies-including such seemingly contradictory spheres as creativity ,and war. His specific nature domain is over metallurgy, thus h is <1doptioi/by <111 workers in met.ii-blacksmi ths, fa rmer s, tt•chnkions and mechanical workers, motor drivers, hunters, sculptors etc. et!=, Today's asfronaut wou ld be a devotee of the god Ogun, so would the atomic scieHti?t, whose choice of t he peaceful or des t ructive conversion of t he atom eh ergy would, al<1s, derive equal "inevitability" from the mandate of OGUN!

Ma ny motor drivers and factory workers who b,1t tle the congl·sted streets of L1go s still flo ck annually to the ir hometowns to celebr<1te the festival of OGUN, at the climax of which a dog is ritually sl.rnghtered in sacrifice to-:the god. The dog is a hunter's mos t precious asset ,1 nd Ogun's most const,111! companion : hu m,, nity has ;,!ways ,1fferl'd to the gods nnly what it values.

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the customer can choose between freshly tapped palm wine (i .e. no older than six to ten hours at tlw mos t, depending on storage conditions), and "veteran" wines of up to a week, sometimes more. At the naming or "outing" ceremony of a new-born, a dab of palm wine on the baby's lips constitutes one of t he sym bolic ingredients of its admission to the world of the living. In many communities, the custom is st ill to "seal" the grave of the depar ted with a dousing of a keg of "ogi di" (palm-wine in its purest concentr;ition). More than even the legendary kola-nut, palm wine is perhaps ~he most inescapable feature of the Yoruba tradi tional life, OGUN pe praised!

Wdl then, wh,1t i~ our Professor, the "de-frocked" church dea<.:on and ex-school.te.icher desperately re,1ching after in this symbol-encrusted, yet physic.ii environment? Sh,ill we be guided by t hat critica l (fovorite) definition which sees h im as ;i tragi-com ic vic t im of the "co n flict of two cu lt ures?" Or by the more down-to-e.ir t h recommendation that his problem is bes t solved by an efficient clinic which specia lizes in schizophrenia? 1

We cou,ld, however, begin (as I do!) by first identifying in h im a creature who on.~,day finally;rebels against the acceptance of the orthodoxy of the p.ilm frqod withoutHs liberat ing wine, of the baptismal water without the livin* spring, against even the mystery of the mask without t he accessib!~ty of primfl being; chafing against humc1n limit,,tions on a holistic -~fi1Sp of the essence behind the phenomenon. Charl.itan, ou tcast yet com1114nal, teac~er and quester , ·innocent and cunning, a st ray among strays, r,riest and profaner, mou lder and iconoclast. ... the community w h ich h~; in effect,._appropriates and opposes to thl' ont' which ,,1s t hini out prtiyl,'.S, in th<.' <.'nd, just ,,s controlled ,rnd l'l'S trktt•d by orthndox ,1rrt•pta1)CC1s ,15 tlw former.

Profc~1sor wishes to penetrate the very heart of phenomena, but how does onr do that? Not even IFA, the corpus of Yorub.i system of divinatiop attempts it. IFA sur rounds Ultimate Truth by enigm,1tic verses, a compendium of myth, legend, axioms and empirical deductions.

This ''indeterminate" nature of IFA, the body of Yoruba "Truths" has been remarked by perceptive aco ly tes, questers and scholars of the system. \:rhey respond in varying degrees to the fact that the Yoruba world-virw is indeed rooted-if such a word is .it all appropriate-more in the very,indeterminacy of Truth than upon categorical certitudes. P.irtisans. ·of ESO, yet another in triguing member of the Yon1ba pantheon, indeed regard him as the symbol and representation of this indeterminate, paradoxical nature of phenomenon. Transition, that numinous terri tory of (non)-exis tence which surrounds and wholly penetriltes the Yoruba worlds 9( the ancestor, the liv ing an d the unborn remains, however, the compreh,irnsive expression of Yoruba intuition in encomp,1 ssing the primal, elusive heart of phenomenon.

In T/w. Rond, the figure of Murano, th e human vessel which was trapped "i n tran~_i tion" becomes, for Professor, a critical medium of underst.inding. Knocke+,down by a motor vehicle while masked and posse5sed by the god OGUN, .this unique gift of the gods, dropped in his l,1p by .i long-dist,111ce driver atid his conductor, comes to represent the final door to t he h e.ir t of phenom~11on. (Cou ld the ark in R,1ida~ tl/ 1/1,• Lt1sl J\1+ serve, perhaps, as analogy?,}_ To open that door however .... .. !

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Se,1l tk• Rt'pl•rt11ry ,rnd Sou th Co.1st. l It• ,1ppl'.ll'l'd llll tlH' NllC t,·lt-vision sp1:ci.1 b "IVh-mlwr ,,f thl' Wl'dding," " l{,11;r pf /\ng<:ls," " King ," "Sliocs," ,ind "Tl1t· Coming ~~undt·,r of Jimn~,Y.~ righ~." He wa~ seen on Ry,1n s Hopt', Tlw Ooc.:tL>rs, "Ani.Jther World," and "As The World Turns." Film credits include Sill-wood, Trndi11s Plan·_;, Crms,·rf Lislrti11g, Thc J-l i l lrr, .ind Cot/011 Club.

JOHNNY LEE DAVEN­PORT IL1v-Al,,mt! M1111! most rece;,tly crc,1ted thl' rolc of Je,111 B,1ptis te DuS,,ble in Eusini Perkins' 011,rrbt.•: n,., B/11.-k Chief. He h.:is appe,1red as W,,l ter Lee Younger in A R,1isi11 i11 tire Stw, Oed ipus in 0<'rfip11.; /{,·.r, Rosmer in

Rt1.;111t"rs/w/111, Oberon ,rnd Theseus in /\ Miif.;u111111,·r Nisl,t's Drmm, .ind Don )u,111 in D011 }11n11 111 I fr/I. As ,1ssoci,1te ,,rt is tic.: director for Chic.:ago City The,1trc Comp,1ny, hc st,1ged Synge's /11 fir,· Slr,idow of t/1<· l;ft-11, Priestley's 1\ 11 /11,;p,·(l,,r Call.,, H,rnsberry's /1 /~r1i,i11 i11 t/11· 511 11, ,,nd Willi,,ms' Cat 0 11 ,1 f/ot Ti11 R,,,,f. He ,1lso direc ted and co-produced Mike Cook's Dnrr11, ,,f tfi,, Niglrt l;,,,k W,,ll' Ogunwemi's n, .. Sig11 t>f /Irr R,1i11/1i,w, ,, nd Derl'k W,1kott's Ti-}<'•111 rlllrl His Bn,1/rl'I';, Film credits indudt• B/116 fln,1/r,·r,;, Thief, ,rnd T/r,· 1\11,.·rimrr Drmm.

R OBE RT JASON I K11/<11111J is ,1 gradu.ite of NLirthwestl'rn Un i-

• vt• rsi t v, ,ind l.ist ,1ppe ,1;·ed ,it tht• Gomlm,111 ,1s )osl'ph in thl• /\mt•ric,111 prcm iert• of Soyink.i's 0 .. ,,1/r r111d

1/,,. Ki11g', J-ior,;!'1111111, l,,ter l:t t!a-?RIF , ,HP recre<1ting the role for the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C .. In New York, he w,,s set'n .,s Tshembe in LI',;

l3/ ,111cs w i th tht• Fril'nds Rept•rtory Company, ,,s Polixenes in T/11· Wi11/,•r ',; Talc· with the Bl.ic.:k The,, tn· Alli,,nce, ,1s As.ig,1i in R,1 isi11 .:it the Equ ity Libr,1ry ThL·,1 trl', ,,nd as a guest a r tist in Cl'rm,111 C.1 /1,irl'f .:it LaMama. At the Publ ic The,1tre, he <1ppc,1red in C,111i11n·, l.1tl'r m,1dt• into ,111 a lbu m fr,1 turing T.1j M,1h,1l, David Murr,1y, Pun ti ll,,, .ind Olu Dar,, . He w,,s seen ,1s M,,stcr of Cercmonil•s in P,·,1,-,· Clri/,/, ,1 benl'fi t for Nude,1r Dis,1 r mc1ment ,,t thl' Riverside C1bc1rl't. Resident c.:redits include Mr1d,,·//r .1t tht• Guthrie Tht·,1tre, 1\ 111,,,.,, ,111 ,I Clc-,,p,1/m, Tl,,· Cn·l'b. ,ind till' Wt>rld prt'n.1it•rt•

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RAZZ JENKINS rL11y­/ \/,,1111/ M11111 m,1kcs his Goodm,,n M,1inst,,g<' dt•but with this pn,dud i(1n, ,ind most rl'L'l'11tly ,1pp<',1rrd in the midwl'st pr<'miert· l,r D,, 1.,,,../ 1'1'111,·111/,,.,. /\,Ir

,it tlw llli11ois The,1tn· Cl'11ter. A vctl' r,111 o f

till' Clll,dm.111 Tht•,1trdUrb,111 C,1tl'w,1ys t,n1rini-; childn•n's tlll',,tl'r production, /\1c11k /'u•11i11 T,,.l,111, R.1,z ,1ppt•,1rt·d b(•fnrt• mor,· th.111 25,000 sdwol d1ildrl't1 ,is I-lurk Finn. !IC' pcrforml'd ,1t thC' Am,1teur l)r.11n.1tists Club of C,mbridgt• University in Engl.rnd. Othl'r thl',1ter credits indudt• Milw,1ukec Rept>rtory's 5,..-r,•I l11i11111, S,·crt'I /~,·1•,·11s,·, Chic,1i-;o City The,1tre's Ln Ml'li,·ci,1 Mc1lsn· l.ui, ,1nd the Jdf Award-winning Tw.-1/1 /, Nishi ,it tht• Hody Politic, for which he s t,1gt•d thC' fight chorC't1gr.1phy.

JAY LAWSON IL11 11-1\/,,111// is 111.1ki11g h·is dd,ut ,ll c,,odm,111 Theatre, ,rnd .:ippe,1rC',i in Chic.1go in D,1tl,/y's Sea,lwrt· /3111,•;; Cm•111011it•; i11 Dark Old Mm: Tf,., J-loo.-li: D011'/ Bot/rcr M,·. I Cn11 'I Co1•,·: and Wil/r Sr.r

• "" i11 1/r,· Till<' . He recen tly wmplC'ted ,1 four week tour of city high schools for Victory C.:irden's J-101111· in thl' role of Cephus Miles. For film, he pl,1yed the gJs st.:ititln ,lttend.:int in Clwcch and . (hong's T/,i11~; /In· Tough 1\11 Ot•rr. Jay h.:is writtC'n ,, pl,1y {J111·sl 1•{ lire l\sc,·11dn11I ;ind ,1 pilot for the r,1dio show "Sweet Home, Chic,1go."

STEVEN W. J. LONG /Say Tokyo Kid/ mos t recently appeared .:is John Nevins in Kuumb,1 The.itre's Trou/,/,· i11 M i11.I. !fr w,1s st•cn in L1mont Zeno's Tltt· M,· N,,/,,,,ly K11ows, Victory C.irden s ' Ed,·11 , .i n d Kuumba Theiltre's J<' rf­

nomin,1ted S11y-R11/i: For the New Broadw:1y Tht•,ltn•, ht• pl,,yed Roger in D.ivid R.il)(' 's Str,·;1111,·rs. At Wt•bs tC'r Collegt·, he ,1ppe.ircJ

.is J,1mie in I fol L l3,1/li11111n· ,ind ,1s George in S,,rry, Wn111.~ N11111b,•r. He directed Tn11,/1/1• i,1 /l.1 i11.I .1nd Sin·11, for Columbi.i College. Steve's film credits include r/11· J\mai.-,111 Dr,-,1111, 13,1,/ /3,111s. and the soon to be rele,1sed "The Final ln.terview" for ABC.

REGGIE MONT­GOMERY tM11r,111,1/ ,1ppc,1rcd in New York in C,•/li11' /1 T,•sl'I/,,.,. ,rnd in M,·,/,,1 11/ /1011or /,11~ ,1 t the Next Move Tlw:1trc in Boston, and w,1s honort•d by tlw Boston Critks Cirde .is Bl•st Artur in rcsidt•nt

thc., ter in 191:13. for thl' Los Angl'll's Shakespeare Festival, he ,1ppe.ired in Doc/or i11 511 il,· of Himsl'if . .:ind for the Dall,1s The.:itre Center in H,1111/d E.S.I'., ). /3 .. To /3,· Yo1111s, Gifi.-d ,111.I Blnck, Ony of Al,s,•11n•, T/11• Blacks. and T/11· Nis/11 Tliormu Spwl i11 )nil. Film credits include Coo,/ Luck Miss Wy,-kojf, Brig/,/ n11d M 11rui11g Siar, Ciom1111i 1111,/ /31'11, ,ind Tl,,· Nl'w Li{,·. For television, he .ippe,1red on "Gener,11 Hospital," "You Can Run, But You Can't Hide," "Day of Absence," and "News Forum." He also appeared as the first bl,ick clown with the Ringling Brntlwrs l:l,1rnu111 ,ind B.1iley Cirnis. ...

IVORY OCEAN IL1y­Abo11tl is a member of Second City, where he created such roles as "Mr. T." and Mayor. Harold Washington. He was last seen ,1s Officer O'Ne,,I in Org.ini c The,1ter's £/R. and has performed his stand-up

comedy act throughout the Chicago ,irea circuit.

TU!'IJI OJEYEMI /l\ssi;ln11I (On11cel ti, //,,, Dir,·do1-/L,1y-J\l,,m1/ hails from lkirum in Oyo State, Nigeria, and has been a profession.,! d.incer since his youth. HC' h,1s t,1ken p,1rt in mJny tr,1dition ,1 I dances and arts

fos tiv,1ls in Nigeri.:i .ind oth C'r rountrics, joined the Unife Theatre in 1973 and w.,s admitted to the school of drama .:i t Ife Univ<'rsity in 1977. Mr. Ojeyt•mi also took part in the Horizontl' Festi v,1I in Serlin.

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:-,t • ,at ~/j por.ll ion of N igeri ,1. H is U.S. t'rt'dit> include tlw titil• role in Chinu ,1-At'hdit.'s ll/irdi' 0,·11·; (/11,in- ,,t t he City Li t Th~,1t re .! 1Mr. Osh111 is curr t>ntly ,1 per lormint ,1 rts m,1jt1r ,1t Northe,1~t ern Illinois L! Vi1vesi ty. H h , universi ty acting .ippear,mt'l:~ include J\rimic 1111,I Old we,•, T/11• 1\-ltiu;,· 11,,11, .ind Albt' IH De Musset's No Trifli11s I Vi(/t Lw,·. !·

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ERNEST PER~Y, JR. ll'n;.1},-u/11rs Jot'I was last see nl~1t the Goodman in A lfof~i11 i11 t/11• 51111. O ther Goodman credit s incltlde E,/111011,I, P/11 11 Mas·, : / \11 E11r111y of 1/,',. P ,, o Ji / ,. , a n d t h e

., Amo)•ican premiere of · ,.___, ....... r .. .... :. Soyinka's D,·nlh 111,d 1/11· Ki11g's H,11~'-i,,1111. Mosl,.!'recen t ly, Ernest appe.irl'd / Cratiano i~ Body Poli tic's T/11· Mer.-/11111I 0J:l,011ic,·, a11J cojnpletcd the role o f Hugh in Nc, rth light Rc;pertory's M,·cliug; . O ther Cp1,ngo credi ts

1ii nclude T/,.. Black

Picture 5/w11i, T/11• Brow1111•ilfr R,1i,I, 011,/,/y's Senshorr altt•'.t· I\ Solo St> 11g For Doc, S11spmd1•rs!, Co 111•crsnlio>I :i•! Night will, •1 Drspisl',I C/111rMla, the work! ~remiere of it IJ 19, Cmmo11irs i11 Dnrk 0/,f fvk•., T /1r Sirms. ,ind Om//, of II Blnck M1111 . For r£;sident t he,1ter Ernes t ;i ppe,,red in produ~iins at the ~dlerbach T heatre and the ,1-~f~race The1.tre. Film credits include "l-\jm9lulu Ru n, t "Chic,1go S tory," "Lottery Rb.;e," " Tht• Killing Floor," ,ind "T he Big $lore." Ernest ~erves ,,s 2nd Vice C hairman ·f~r the Midw(ist Advisory Board of Actor's.

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.. . JERI~ L. POINDEX­TER .fl.J,11-Abou// m akes his Co;ld m,rn debut wit h :this production, and w as last seen as

\ ~-_ Bust'fr i n Victory \ • .i.:.. __ ; . Gard ,,ns' Drmm 4 Flight .

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'.,.• . . Ku um,ba T he,1tre, New FnCt'S of 1 "8?.4 t, Victory G,i[.dens, a nd will be seen in •thq!\~)Joming PI31rfilm"The Killing Fluor" as J,..,1fp nie. I le ,1pL1t'c1 rcd in t he film

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u, .. l<rs _., .... ... ),·ri~ ,~ ,1 tt·upit•nl .,f thret· ,w,1,1nls fn,m thl' N.ltit1n,1 I Assori.1! ion <>f I ) r,1rn,1 .111,I Spt·t·, ·h Ar is.

YING RHA MES I S 11 / IJ /, i / Ill ,1 k t' 5 h i S

Coodm,rn dl'but in T/1,· R,,,,,1. A gr,1du ,1te of the Perfo rming Arts Hi~h St'hool ,, nd a 1983 gr,1du,1 te of The Jui lli .ird Schoo l, he ,1ppea red in the New Ytirk Shakespe are

Festiva l's production of Ric/um/ Ill w ith Kevin Kline . Yin g played Mike T,,lm,,n in W ail L/11li/ D,,rk a t Buffalo's S t udio Arena The,1tre, and he w ill be seen as ,, young Paul Wingfield in the upcoming televis ion film o f James Baldwin 's "Go Tell it on the Mountain."

SAM SANDERS lwy­/\/,0111/ is m ,,ki ng h is fi rst GooJm,:in ap ­pe,,rance with th is prod uctio n, and was !,,st seen as Brick in C111 011 11 Ho/ Tiu Roof. for the Chicago Ci ty T heatre Company. He ;ippe,,red i n the midwest

prem ie re of fvfreli11ss ,1t the Bryn Mawr Playhouse directed by Bo b Curry, and originated the role of David in }0l111s by Will iam J. Norris. He performed in the children 's show, Chimgo: A T11/,· of 011,• City, for Urban Gateways in the role o f Jean Baptis te Po in te DuSable. He w,1s ,,lso set•n in M./\.S.1./\., Wt· 511111d Lih II Fi11 ,· On1w11;/•""'· TJ,.. Mis/1/y Cmls. Th,• B/,rch, /1 Ct1111p,111y ti{ Wavw,ml S,1i11ls, Dnrms, and t>O Ft., ti /11c/11·.,. His· television credi ts include "H,, rd Knox" and "Chicago Story" (NBC). "Hill Street Blues" (CBS), "Amer ic,rn Dre,,m" (ABC), and will be seen in the upcoming PBS film "The Killing Floor."

TONY STO KES rwy-Abou// appt•ared ,1t the Ill inois The,1tre Center in ffo11r•' and D,, L,m/ R,•111,·111h,·r M,·. He has been seen in numerous Chic,1g t1 n ig h t cl ubs. In New Ytirk, he ,1ppt',1red t1ff-8roadw,1y ,,nd tiff-off

Bro ,,dw.i y, in n ig h tcl u bs, opt•r,1s, ,rnd CtlJKt•rt h,1ll s. A nlt'mber of l ht• 11,1tion,1I tou r ing t'omp,,ny o f T/1,• Pir,rft's ••/ /'m~,,,1n·.

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WOLE SOYlNKA ll'l1111wr(~/1I/Din·dt1r/. l11-tern.1tion.1lly ,Kcl,1imed as playwright, poet, es­sayist, novelist, and critic, Wole Soyinb's works explore the African w o r ld view, Yoruba folklore, custom, and dramatic techniques.

He is described ,is "a brilliant imagist." /News11wk). During the Nigerian Civil War he spent two years in solitary confinement as a politic,11 prisoner for unsubstantiated crimes against the ruling government-his book, Th ,· M1111 Di,·,/, is a record l'f those l'Xperil'lKl',. Curn•ntly on the f.iculty ,1t thl· University of lfe, Soyinka holds ,111 I-lonor.iry Doctor,1te of Letters from Yale University and is the recipient of numerous awards, among them the prestigious John Whiting Award. Soyinka founded the first English theater company in Nigeria, the Orisun Repertory Theatre. His published plays include T/,r Stro11g Breed, produced off-Broadway and adapted fo r American television, Ko11gi'; Hnn•esl, T/1,· Lion ,rnd ti,,, J,w<'I, Swn111p Dwclll'rs, ;i nd Orn//, t111d f /,c Ki11g's J-J,,r,.•111,111, givrn its Americ,111 premiere ,it thP Coodm,1 n Theatre and then invited to perform for three weeks at the Krnnedy Center, Was hington, D.C. Tri11/; of Bro/I,,.,. Jero was seen both off-Bro,1dway and in London, an d the B11cc/1111• of Eu ri11id,,,; w,1s performed by the National Theatre, London. Soyinka's recent works include 1\ki•, a childhood autobiography, and two plays: A Pllly of Gin11/s and Req11i<'ll1 for11 Ful11rologisl. both to be published by Methuen and Rex Collings, Ltd., this July.

PATRICIA WOODBRlDGE IS .-,·11i.­Oc;ig11cr. USA/\! designed the Broadw,1y product ion o f Tlie Ru,111,·r S/11111/,/,•;. Oif­Bro,1dw,1y she designl'd Fi;/1i11g ,wd Oi;palc/11·s for the New York Sh,1kespe;ire Festiv,11

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Amlin C r,,v, .ind Elizabeth Swado's /\!igl:id::li' e,,;,t,1/,1. OthN crl•dit s indudl· work ,11 ,'\ n•n,1 St,1ge, Ford's Theatre, T he !'hiladt>lphi,1 Dr,1m,1 Cuild, Cin cin n,1ti Playhoufe, and Buffalo Studio Arena . She is curre:n-tly on the f,1 culty of T isch School of the !\fits at New York Univr rs ity ;ind is a membe!l of the Le.1gue of Profrssion,11 Woml'n' 111 f hL•,1trl'/N Y.C.

:it: JUDY j)EARING ll:1i~/11111,• D,·,i,~11a, USl\111 r l't urn$i tu the Cnt1dm.1n wlwre she dt•,sign!:f cus tunws _for Lorr,1ine H,1ns ber­ry s 1\ h111s111 111 t/11· :.,,,; th,s se,1son ,ind the Negro f1nsemble Co1np,1ny's product ion of Ch,trk~ -r ulk•r's 1\ S11 l, li,·, .. , /'/,,y !,1st Sl',1S0l1 . Her 13t:Q,1dw,1y Cl'l'dit·$ include Fur C.dort"d Ci, Is \·~jl~ I /,m• Co11s1,l,·n-,/ 511ii"id,· W/11·11 1/11· R,1i11b,,w•'.-1; [1111(, '/'/,, . .1'ois,111c,I Tree, L,1111111i.•;I /{,·1111io11, '. /.,:;.-k, T/11· M1sl11y Cm/,

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Pht11 n· S{;,,w, and What ,l /11• W i11,·,cl/a; Buy . Ms. Dearin)) ,c:rved as resident designer at the New FqiJeral The,1tre where she recently designe/li costumes fw· Srl111n . Among her · other d1•dits are nu111i:rous product ions .it t h e Nql¥ Yo r k SH\1kespcMe Festi v ,11 includint r,, .. D,11,.-,., ,wd //11• R11ilro,1d ,md Derek )ti,1[cott's l{,•mm,l11·,111.-,·. Nu/,i,111 Lndy, and /11,i,/r:performed ~.Y Judith ),,meson for the Ah,:j ,l"f\ iley American Dance Theater; and thf / N.E.C. production of Ch,1rles Fulll' r 's fil,1i111,w ,111,I 1h(3is11. Currl'ntly, Ms.

. Dt• ,irini(r~-,· work c,\ll Ol' seen ,1t the Colo1npdcs T hea r e i n the N .F. T. Producti<ln: of Fmlm1ili1 Brnt/1,·rs and a t the Americ9 n !'I.ice Theatre in th ree one-Jct plays foj;, ih,e Wom;iri's Project. She is the recipient {,\~ three Au.delco ,,wa rds.

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ST EPH,1;1)-1 STRAWBRIDGE ILigl1ti 11 g D1•sig11er, :LJS.Al\1 most recently designed the ligh ting .J<,ir the Bropklyn Academy of Music's. ,J?:1;oduction ~if Phillip G l.iss' Tl1L· Phvtosrnf/7i!i. which to1-1rl'd n,1tion.illy . His ligh ti ng.l'\,1s ,1lso bee1; set·n rl'L'en tl y ,1t the l'ennsyl:vf nia St;ige ~: omp.iny in Russell D,1vis' ri,lt~ p lay T/11•; Fui-th,·r /\dt>,·11/url's of Sally. M { S trawbri<.ige's o the r. credits includ e the New York Sh ,1kes pe.i r e Festiv,1L1la M,1m,1 E.T C., T heatre for the New Cit~! ,1·nd Y,1le R~pertory Theatre. He is a fo1.1h,ding member of the American

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MICHAfuL . SCHWEf.PE IR1•sid,·11t 501111d Dcs(~111·rl :t,ai; designeq 1sound for over 20 Goodma~,productions,induding the r t'et'nt preinieril! o f _David; JC1be's //11r/y/,ur/y. (1111 ,li,/11, :1'R,·d Ri111•r, 'Bl'lrny,,/, the world premieri;-r ,. of Mich,1e\ l,Wellcr's Dw,11J11w11, Mos/a <lfi.l" /\(li/liv11 Sli11pe;, .ind Ten nessee Wi ili;ims' II\ H<lus~ Nofi '·\1m111 r,, St1111d. He scrvt•d ·.\a: sound dc); ,gner fo r Al .1sk,1

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T hl',1t rP wlwre he worked with 1'.1iL'h Je\ L ,in g h ., m, E 11 i s R ,1 b b • .i :1 d C l' r a I d G utierrez, Jnd des ig nt•d ~(JL1111.l J-u r Northlight Repertory Thea t re's pro­duc tion of Mt'l'/ i,,g;.

MELINDA DEGUCZ /Prod11clio11 S1,1s ,· Mr111r1g,•rl i$ in hl'r third ye,1r ,is .i reside nt st,1ge m,111,1ger ,it the GouJ111.1n Thr,1 lrl' w he re her credits include T/11· B,·,k,·tt l'rd,·.-1. T/11• Di11i11g /, ,,om, 1\ R,1i;i11 i,1 //,,• .51111, /\ Chis/1110, Cr1rn/, ,rnd most recently C. 111did11 . T his p,1st summer she Sl' rved ,15 production st,1ge m,111,1ger for Victory C,1rdcns T he,t tcr's T/11• v,,/11,· of N11111r., ,1nd during the 1982 Sl',1son w t,rked wi th the A111eril',111 l'l.1yL'rs Thr ,1trc i n Sp r ing Gre en , Wisconsin. formt•rly, Ms. Degucz w,1s thl:' m.in,1ger of the Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri in Kans.is City.

GREGORY MOSHER /Artislir Dim/or/ h,1s overseen 73 product ions, 35 of which were world or American pr emieres, s ince coming to the Goodm,111 in 1974.

ROCHE SCHULFER I Mr111ngi11g Dirt'clor! is in h is eleventh se,1son at the Goodm,1n Theatre. He h.is worked in p;1 r tnership w it h G r eg ll r y Mos h c r s i n c e t ht' in,1ugur,1 t ion of Coodm,1n St,1ge 2 in 1974 and h;is brl:'n involved in the produdion of more than 120 pl,1y s. Mr. Schu lfer currently se rves as presiden t of the Le,1gue of Chicago Thea tres (LCT) and is a member of the bo,1rd of direl'tors of Remains T heJtre. Mr. Schulfe r is ;i lso on the executive and negotiating commit tees of th e League of Rt•sident T he,1t res (LORT), the na tion;il associa tion of not­fo r- prof it res iden t the,1ters.

DA YID MAMET 11\-ss,,ci,,t,, Oin·clorl is the ;iuthor of A111aim11 flu/(, 1/0, 11 Li/,• i11 //11, T/1 1'11/n·, Lo11 ,, CrHJOI', and the Obie Aw,1rd­wi11 ning Ed111011d, ,1 11 o f which premie red ,it the Goodm,1n under the d irection o f Gregory Mosher. Other pl;iys indudL' L1k..J,,,,11, Tl,,· Wnl,·r E11gi,11•, Tl,,. Wo,,,k Sl'.rn,,/ Pmwsily i11 Cliimgo, T/11· Durk Vr1 rialio11s, I\ Sm11011, Reu11iv11, Dark Po11~. T/11· Poe/ ,111,/ !lie Rc11I, Tht· Rn•,·11gc of the s,,,;,.,. l'n11dn, • .i nd the tra nsla tion o f I.1st se,1son 's Ame ric,111 prl' mic re of l'it·rrl' Livilk-'s Rrd l, h•,.,., Scrernpl,1 ys include Tl,,. l'os/1111111 / \ h,,,111; ' Ring; Twir,· ,ind The Va.lief, for which hr received ,111 Ac,1drmy Aw.ird nomi n,1tion . His newest pl.iy, l; /,·11g ,11.,-11 Clm /{ <1;,, · received its American premiere this past wintl' r.

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As should be!expected on their own homeg round the Yoruba gods, despite dete.rmined ass:iult by fo re ign faiths, have not undergone any syncretic fu ~ton w ith other gods and deities, a developmen t which is natur;il enoug·h in Lat in' Americ,1-Hr,izil most conspicuously-where Yo ru b.i deitLe~ h,ive be come fused, even form.illy, with Roman C1tholic saints. This Was the cl,indes tine mechani~m adopted by Afric,111 slaves in order to pre!\~rve their re ligious faiths in foce of repression by the Church in their coun.tr i"es of enforced exi le, only to be astonished by the adoption of the syncretic hybrids .. by thei r once horrified m;isters.

On the Afr ican continent, however, not only do the a ncient religions of its peoples tFi-rive toJay in their pris tine forms, they ,1lso exist side by side with alien relig ions such its Chris,t iani ty and Islam with their own plurality of sects and creeds. The Yoruba pantheon is particularly fecund and complex:· 'the god OGUN being one in ii hierarchy of four principal deities , exerth,g patron,1ge and protection over h is own sphere of human act ivities and tendencies-including such seemingly contradictory spheres as cre;itivity ~hd w,ir. His speci fic n,, ture dom,1in is over mct.11lurgy, thus his adop tion· Gy ;ill workers in mctill-bl,,cks mi t hs, fa r mers, tt•ch n it.:ia n s and mechanical' workers, _motor drive rs, hu n ters, scu lptors etc. etc. Today's astn}1)aut would be ii devotee of the god Ogun, so would t he atomic scienti~t, whose choice of the peacefu l o r destructive conversion of the atom ene'r'gy would, alas, derive equal "inevi tability" from the mandate of C!lGUN!

Many motor drivers and fac tory workers who b,, ttle the congested streets of Lag~s still flock annually to their hometowns to celebr,1te the fest ival of OCUN, at the cl imax of w hich a dog is ritually slaughtered in sacri fice to the .god. The dog is a hunter's most precious asset and Ogun's most constan·~ ·companion: humanity has always offered to the gods only wha t it v.i lue's'! ·

Also liberally "s.icrificed" however is t he p,1lm wine, OGUN's favori te draught and the gods' unparalleled gif t to hu manity, upst,1ging even the grape firstly through the.iconogr,1 phic ,,ssertiveness of its source, the p,1lm t ree, on,·t'he landscape, then by the free conversion of its s,1p to ferm ented l_iqt1or. Deceptively milky in colour, every moml•n t the p,1lm wine spends iq ·con tac t with ,, ir incre,1ses its alcoho lic pwof ., sits

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Dear Mr. Panofsky,

The Theatre

Roche Schuller, Managing Director

April 23, 1984

Post-show discussion Sunday, May 13, 1984 Performance at 8:00 p . m.

T".:1.ank you so much for participating in the Goodman's pos t-sho,,.r discussion series following performances of THE ROAD by 'i·:ole So:: inka. THE ROAD, written in 1965, is the story of a jo-u::cney into the spiritual world of Yoruba folklore - a journey o:: discovery led by the Professo:-, the prophet-like 'leader o::: a g:-oup of unemployed Nigerian truck drivers.

The post-show . dis<;'.µ$_st.on.s _·take place ir_1 ttie . theatre. itsel::: i2:.:1edi,~teiy . aft.er the--per":formance· .. -Bet,.ieen . one and two hund:-ed audi ence.members usually remain for the discussions w~ich las: up -to thirty minutes. A member of the Goodman staff will moderate, and there will be two or three panel members. The discus sions are in f ormal in nature, and are not lectures by a n y means , b~c rather give an opportunity for the audtence _and panelists to talk about the issues of the play that they have just watche d, as well as discus_s the production itself and the playwr.ight.

Your tickets for the play will be h~ld at the box office in your name. If you can, please pick up your t ickets a few minutes before the performance.

Please go to the stage door on the left-hand aisle of the . theatre immediately after the performance. l.Je will me et you there and take you backstage. If you have any further questions, please cal l me­at 443-3811 or 443-3838. Thank you again for your h e lp.

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TOUT : A conductor on a lorry or passenger wagon, A very good tout will work for one driver exclusively .

LORRY: A bus or truck driven by a driver and his conduct­or; an inexpensive means of transport ation for goods ·or passengers. These trucks are often covered with drawings of movie super-heroes, religious mottos a~d detailed animal and bird motifs. Lorry accidents are very common in Nigeria, due to the nature of the roads and the lax licensing practices.

MOTOR PARK: The garage where drivers and conductors pick up their-- -passengers- and -- goods and meet potential

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PALM WINE: Wine t hat is tapped from the palm tree and often used on ceremonial occasions. Newly tapped palm

-wine is milky- white in color and very potent.

OGlJN: One of the Yoruba deities who is the patron god of drivers . It is at the driver's festival in his honor that the Egungun mask appears. A dog is the ritual sacrifice to honor or appease Ogun.

EGu"NGUN: A masquerade that is found throughout the Yoruba worl d. Those who dance the Egungun may enter a trance-like state and "become" the ancestors or gods they represent. They appear in times of celebration and of danger to bring to eart h the force of the divine presence--in this case, Ogun. Anyone who touches the Egungun is believed to risk death.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

THE ROAD takes place in a palm-wine bar, in which is also situated the Akcident Store, set up by a former church deacon now known as the "Professor". Once employed also as a school teacher, Professor now nakes his living charging men for forged licenses, insurance policies and ·police reports, and by selling automobile parts looted from motor accidents. He has recently appointed Kotonu, a favored driver, to_ run the store.

Kotonu became afraid to drive because of two accidents he was recently involved in. During a driver's festival in ·honor of thi god, Ogun, he accidentally hit the god's masquerade. Then on the way back with the body of the masquerade (Egungun) ~~ the -~Euc}<.? .. l].~ __ apd !:is ~~t~ __ S~mson __ yit~ss yet . another accident·· that i<ototi.u believes ~.fas· meanc-· - · · · for them. Arriving back at the store to seek Professor's help, they find that the body has disappeared.

Increasingly troubled by the omens of the accidents and the body's disappearance, Kotonu and Samson continue their consultations with Professor . The lay-abouts, unemployed drivers, motor mechanics and part-time political thugs drift in to await Professor's mute palm-wine tapper Murano, and the ceremonial palm-wine hour which coincides with the church's evening communion service. Kotonu, who has begun to suspect the true identity of Hurano, triggers Professor's own desire to "~mveil" the godhead of Ogun as a beginning to his quest of A~E., the "Word". This sacrilege brings to a head the latent antagonism between Professor's world and that of the followers of Ogun.

THE ROAD will be performed without an intermission. Running time is about 98 minutes .

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The dance is the movement of t::ansii.ion; it is used in the play is a ~.":ima! suspension of d~th-in much the !::ime -..vay as Munno, the mute, is a c:=am:iric c.::nbofui:nt of this suspension. H~ fiill-ctions as ;;n ::..'1~1: cf time, or death, since it W:!S in his 'ag~mo' phase that the lorry knockec.l him do\\-n. Age-mo, the mere phase, includes the pass.,gc of tr:i.nsitio!J. from the human to the divir:.c essenc.! (as i:i the fcsfrv2.l of 0[;11!1 in this play), as much ~s the p:trt psych.ic, part iat-:ik::.d grope of Professor tow.u:d., the essence of death.

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Da:1 1t: is barely brc.1ki1:g 011 a r:>ad-sidc sl..:ck, a raggdfc::ce anJ a CC'r::er cf a church with a clClscd staincd--gl.::.ss u1ir:dow. Aool'e this a cross-s:1m;ow:Ccd steeple tapers out of sight. Thncstir.g dotvnstage jrolll a corner of the shack is tlze back of a 'bolekaja' (mammy waggon), lop-sided and 111i111u its ivl:eels. It bears tl:e i11scription-AKSIDEST STORE-ALL PART AV AILEBUL. ]H the opposite corner, a Jew bcnc1ies r.t:d empty beer-cases 11sed as stools. D:iu.·11.Sta<'e to or.e sidt, a table and chair, pl.i:ed in cot:tr;;stin.;; tidiness.

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A1:m:no gets 11p. Goes a11d washes 1:is face from a pot just sl:ou.-ing among r:,bvle of worn :yres, h11bs1 w•isred b11mpers etc. Picks 11p his climbing rope, his gourd a11d his 'os11ka'. and sr:ts off Samson wa.~es half-way through lzis ab!mions and watches l:im Jimii1ely. As Afttrano dis.:ippears lie considers Joilou:ing him but thinks be:ter of it, returns to his n:at.

T11e tower clock strikes .fii:e. Samson stretches, tosses a!io:it restlessly. El'cnt11a!ly he gets t1p, scratcl,ing. Goes outside and tries to foliow ,\forano with his eyes. Gives up. He ambles arotmd aimlessly, stoppi11g to pick up cr:1111bs from a plcte lying 011 a table. Tliw he goes out and t1ri11ates against the .,_.,.;!]_ ii,r.,.:;1i;;., U~e a practised idler. Aho11t to re-enter, a thouoht stri.~es hi,n . ~ ~

mid he turns and with some trepidation, goes towurds the ciz11rchyard. Goes tl:roi1g/1 a gap in the Jenee, and eggs hi111seVJ11rther and further imide. St,mli1!g him, the tower clock strikes the half-lio11r and he belts back, flinging himself t/1,0:1,gh the gap befvre he realizes idzat tlir: 11oi:c is. Sli.ikcs /,is fist .;t t!1 ~ tou1cr and rc!1m1s to the Jh:ick.

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1vbybe the sight of you using a chewing stick. s.uu.sr: Look Samson, fr's early in the rr.o:-ning. G0 back to sleep

if you're go:..,s to S~:il't tr:at again. [He stans co p:it on /;is ch:H!..!_7e11r's 11nfam:.]

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SAL UB I: Impression. I ta...~c uniform impress all focure employer. SA~1SON: \Vich th:it smear on the front? s .\tu B 1: Go mind your ov,n business you jobb~ t~ '.'.t.

SAM soi-;: Me a jobless tom? May I ask \vhat you arc? s.u t; oI: A uniformed private driver-temporary W1er:1ploy.

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pride in thei job. Pare-time tom part-time b:.u-gb . .r. In :-.... '1)" c.1se they arc the p~s~i!ence of the trade. No professional dignity. Hear them snoring as if their exh2ust has dropped off. Now that i5 ,,;h:..t Kotonu cxpcctS me to do-start routing for any lorry which bppens to come along. Is th.at the sore cf life for d1c Champion Tout of Motor Parks?

I ' . 1 ' ' . S.l.U.:DI: tmn: say ::ie;g::..::: DO get CilOlCC.

SA.\tSO~: Is that so? Of cot...rse you should kno,;,.·. You a.:::c ready to caw! on yoi.;.: belly a:id beg fo.::- any;:\ing. As fo .::- me, I :1:n

a p.::-ond n:an. I to:Jt fa.:: my o·,\·n driver, not for :1:1yone else. I'm a one-drive.:: toci:, no more no less.

SALt:BI: You sav vou gc:: Dricie and still vet you are a condnctor oa ~ ) \.," ... ,/ ,,

bolckaja. SAJ.!SO~: Konscnse, we run a bus. Tnc seats face where you are

going, just like the d.:::ivcr h.imsdf 2nd the 5rst-cbss p:mc:}gcrs. In a common boleb.j:i. you r!.:....rn your side o.::: you.: bck to where you arc going.

S}.LUBI: Any\\·ay, chc ma:ter is that you arc going with passenger Jon,;. You and tht..'Se ruffians, vou arc the sJmc. 1\lk, I d0n'c

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drive lorry. I drive only private owner-no more no less. SA~.iso:-.: Prince wey r.o gee licence. Go sidc!on my friend._

[ Sal.,bi gifles t!:e !.-:.st lu:tJn a Jn,:crish, strai.Jl:tcns hi,r.selj· ,;,-;J looks sati~/ied.]

S.-\Lt:Bt: As I am sc;m2ing so, I tit to crivc the Queen orEngb:1d. SA>lSO:--;: One look at you :.nd she v.-i!l abdic.-~tc. s.H t: BI: :\II I need no·.v is a licence. le is only a m:..ttcr of gct:ing

professor to fo.:::;c one for :nc. sA:-.1s0~: Ask him. s.\IXDI: I have asked him a hu.'1drcd times, bu~ he o.lw.ws s:ivs ..• . . , s .'> ~-: s a:--; [/11i1!:id::·,: ,·.J: G8 :rn·::Y. Cc,mc b:ick -,,.-h::n '-"l)U h:iv:: a J··)b .

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SAL UBI fdowr: 011 ltis k11ces, salaams.]: Afric:m millionaire! S,\~!SO?--:: I can't hca::-you. s.u "[;BI: Delicate r.iillion~rd

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s.Et:sr: Sam son d~ r..Jlio:::ire! 'h ,.. . , '! I, r , s.A..~.!so::--: .,. , my tricncs, \':nae can co :or you:

Sa\!. C ill [:11 a:!i,:tcc "rr ... raw:,.J,: Give US cSs C.1'\" Ol!i' cbi]y °!)read. .. ~ ,I ,

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s1,,u;n1: I-faba, m3kc man tali: true, m:'" .;;,,:~ i::•:i: 111,-,;":y g~~ power.

s .". .•.1 so::,,;: God I go cho? iife m.11:e I cdl tcue. I go chop the lifo so tcy God go j(,;z.kJUs me. And if he take jc4lousy kill me I \\ill go scart bus service b::rwccn heaven ;:;.nd ]di.

s.Hl"B I : \!?bjch kin' bus fo :- hcr,·cn? Not to ac.:r:::ipl.me or · hel icopter 1.kn go take t.rJ.vd for P:uacbc?

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. A comFost hc:.p h2s i"5 o".11 uses, ;;5 l0ng as the wi:itl is bb\\-i:1g in tl1c other direction. T here h:iYe been rimes whc!'l you :1c~~1.1ily c!.:;.r~d to brcat::e ir1 :::y face.

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bc: r~ocks O?Cn wide a:1d you begin to far. on passen6ers in the fa-st-<:bss com?:lrt:T:ent. Is chat right?

s.u:.:BI: Ycsssssssssah. I r::-:ean no sah. At all at ;;}J sah. s.4..~.:so:-:: K ow I ,n::u you to take the ca.r-t:1c bng or.e-:md

cr;s;c ;Jo~g t:ie Ma...'i.!1a at t'\\'O o'clock. All the fine fine girls j,1st coming from oruccs, the young 2.,-,d render faces fresh from school--,:ive them He to mv house. Ol<l bones l.i...~e me rmm

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put fresh ton ic in his blood. [.3:isy with i,wgl:ter, rl.cy do not see the Professor appro,1ch. Sal11bi is tlie jir:;t t L1 see him, he sta:~s pe!r0~ed for S'lflll' nt()11 1P1tt~ _. then t • . -r.1·,,. { J , •• ,,,,,, ] - . • ,~ ' .. , .. ~ . -~

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[ Sdt1bi, a•:'rh treml!:r::; fi1:6er, poii:!s in !:is d:rec:i.;n, l·w S.:mson n}1ses t-, ,rm: ro:11:d.] Y ou t~J.i.:,k yo !J have s~~n :i new bom fool do you? \Vh at ,1.·ould Professor be doin:; here at this time of the d.;y ? f .-1.t Projc:sc r gets to tf:c Jnvr, S:i!rri:i d:':·e~· 111:du tl;e :.::t•l:?. S;1nr,,m, r:--,, {,;tc, t:mts ri:,1111J -.1r.d st.::rcs [ Clr~_:id. r>, .. :: ..... \ .,. :.- .. , ·'! ,: -., ,. (,1 L ·j·:·,•.·~ ... ~!: ·:1_._ ::_,· ---.·.:·.· .:_,:, :.,_:\-.,:.:,• C.'.·., •· .. '.' - 1_- ~-- · ·- "' . .... .. , .. \ ·· t. . - - ~

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A new discovery eYcf)· hour-I am used to that, bur that I should b:: kd to where this v;as hidden, s::,routed in secret for

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T - • . • . ' I h 1-, ' l . fi I" _z ttl:s 1s a t::KK swe:.r c. ey s .. :m t ra.:e 1t rom me. r l.:lY eyes were <dud:.!d and ray body led here by spells I shall not succe:1der t:ce fruit of .:ny vi;il. No one c::n take it from me ! fr.JI' 1, 1, ' t J r' ~P/l s ,. <" 1:. ,•- t; "'/"( 11\,] LU- t( . 01.'.5 ·'Pa. ,a,,, . •. 5 an.,on, .crr1 . .1 .. -es n,m Cwr._,11, ,-

You sir, a.re not Or!C of 1:-iy bbitu:i.ls, or I would know you. SAM SO);: N-n-n-no. I'P. o F.: So, you a.dn~t it, and it is no use prc~cnding you are. SA~-fso:-:: No ... I mc:m . . •

[Looking do:Nt mddc11ly, Professor sees Salubi's rear protn1di11g from J 1 ' 1 H ., C - • • • ,. ,. J f wi,.i::r t :1e t:::;;ie • .• ~ 5/r11~es a ~:c1-u111e pcsz!:on, cran,::s ies I ie

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thece? Come out come out. You m:!y be the devil's O\'-TI army bat my ;;.rm is powered v.-id1 the unbroken \VorJ!

s .\ .,1 so:-:: P-p-.?l~asc sir, I thlnk you bvc m:ide a misr:i.kc. PROF.:I1iavc? .

SA .,1s0~: Pcrh:i?, you r.1isscd your wa.y.

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Good-bye. PROF. [5:m·cys liis l:eigr.t wirh ncll' u1onder.]: Yes, you St>em :i. kno,Yir:;

man, cutting yourself from common touch with e:i.rch. But th:i.c is a path away from all true corn.::nu:uon ... the Word is not

to be found in denial. I

, , , SA~1s0~: ::.gree . . . p1e:1se go rww, \1.;e arc rat.ccr busy. Pr-OF. : !vbv I ask wl-:o you :1rc? I ax, I confoss. a Ede 6zd by ::1y error but I have a vague :ecolk:::rion o( •;our face ... - ,

s.u.~SO1': ~ ot i:1 cl:e lc:is.:. I am s.:re we r.;1\·c n::;vcr m:::t b:..forc. PROF.: You live h~re? S.·L\~so:-;-: Yes .•. er . .. I ov;n ti:c place. In fact, I ;:::n a

millionaire. PROF.: You are "·hat? SA~l.SO~ [g.i ini11g courage.]: Yes, that's ri;:::i.t. A million.2.1re. P n OF.: I ~m so confused, bu~ I h2.vc sight and \·ision only for the

\Vord wd it m:1y cbance, somc:-imcs, chat I miss my \•;ay among worldly human.s. [Going.]

S,\MSON: Tn:i.t is \Vhar I have been trying to cell you. Good-bye. PROF. [shaking his !:ead sadiy.]: Such dangers beset us ·who seek after

.the Word. [ He secs Kotot:11 sitting 11p, stops.] But I do kno,;,,· y():t. You arc the coast- ro-coas, driver who gave up the road.

SA}.!5O~: Did he? I mean who? Oh him. \Vhy, I employed him only this morning. He mu:;c have changed his rr.ind.

PROF.: .Aha, did I not s"Jy that I was dnwn h~re on a wave of symp::.~hy? I kn~';';' I codd not miss my ,•:ay \Yirhout r~:1s0.:1. [ Sun:san signals Kotomi Jrcntiu:!ly to get Professcr 011t.]

Ko To~; u: If you like Prof c.ssor, I v.-ill come home ....,--; fr1 you. PROF.: Dut your employer ... ? sA:-1so::--: .. . has no o'ojcccion at all. Take him. In fact f no lor.s;::r

n~::ci ];i::1. He dr(.";ur.s too r;1uch. Go on, \'OU a::e s;;d:cd. ;

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SALCBI: No\·: he is going ro rind us ot.:r you stupic! touc.

PF. OF.: .\1 y bee is :irnong the dead, and \\-hen the ro:id ra:sc5 a v:cror-..- er: to brc:ik m\· sleep I hurrY co a dis~rcndcd S,\·:irm

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there was such an angry buzz but rhe m:i:tc-r w:is beyond rcpJ:r. Tncy <lied, all three of thc:n crucified on rigid bra11c:1es. I found this word growi:1g '.\·here their blood bd sprc,,.J md sunJ: :ibng plou;h scouri..7g of the ,_,-lied. Kow tell me you ,.,·ho sit ~bow it :ill. do you thinJ: my slc.:~p w as broken over

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Comr..:ion s~op-lifrer. \vncn Serge.1nc Bur:n:1 wa.s alive you ,vou12n 't dare.

SAL UIH: I am glad you can joke 2.bout it. Deouse I bought it from

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ri;c sh..ck. S:imson ]i_;;,cnsfc,r some ti11Je.] s A MS o :s: He's not as good ~s the first man-that's wh:lt Frofcsso:: s::i.ys. SALt:Br: \\.'hy he dey come rb.y dat ting every morning self?

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o:-;:i.n.is.: saw that, he k_,.,_cw he was in se:-ious trouble. s .H;; Br : \Vhy' e no kub.1 play the ting i.1sdf? SA:,:so:-- : "\\'here ·,verc you born that you don't kno,v about

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gra,·e!_y lays cl:c ha!:dJ..:trcl1ief as:d~.] He ncv~:: u.sd a h.an2J~c::c::..icf ndce. Ne\·er.

s.ur.:B1: \Vbt about tbe day th:::y said he fought \\-i:h tl:c bishop? S.B!SOK: V/hich kind of fighting? SALt:Bl: Didn't h~ sbp t.li::: bishop?

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SALliBI : How much? SA?-!SO?-:: B.D. Bacbdor of Divinfrv sn.!;:,id. B:.:r B.D. or no 13.D. , .

d~c man jt!st cou12.n'r knack or;;wry 8:: th: Profesmr. In fact c\·e:-::body :2lways sad t.'½ac P:ofesso:- ought to prc:i.::h the

b . , . . ' I , - J • d sc:-mons uc a JO.r-:c 1s a JOKC, r:::ie:in, t.ne man.is no~ orc:;,;:,c . . So we had to be satisfied v:..-ith hi::n reading the le~son and I'm

p· , ,... • - _, h tc,Ung yea, trucc-qu:;.r.::rs o: tnc COns[cgatIOn Q;uy came tO r:..r his voice. And the bishop was jealous. ,v?hcn the bishop ca:ne on his mont.ltly visit and preached the sermon after Professor's Jc5son, it was a knock-out pure and simple. Before bishop open in mout' half de churc!l do!le go sleep. ,-\nd the on:=s who st2ycd av-.:a..\e only watched P:of~sor t.1king notes. [i-Vl1ip~

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SAL t: :a I: En-hen. If na you be bi.shop :!.."12 sor.:1;:So .. :y dcy Gs:> Llt kin' ting yo•.1 no go vex?

SA~!SOs: \Vait s;:rull you no h.::a.r d:: p:opcr fig:1~ ye:. That w:is the · day L½c wall of Jericho [he pc:"nr!.] fcil Jo,.,-u. The bi5hop thought

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.:, ' sorr:chow. _-\frc~ all, what excuse b:n:e vou? You haven't been , to ,.nr. You ec.nnot pretend to be an om-:ind-out c:1ru1ioal like s~:-;:?anr B:~r:1~a ..

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"vv' ell, tried to tclch you an-y·way a..,d ,vo::e om his soul in the attempt. \'Vhere is Humphrey Bogart? Cima.r.on Kid? Have \ 'OU knov.-n a!1\' ctnc:: c::ivcr cake on oil-tanker from Port , ,

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a11 the tyres .. SAJ\!SO?s: He w.1sn'c hum:m. r.:orosc: Bue he was. He was. A mm mu3t protect himself 2g2inst

the in,.:.iE~renc~ of co~..:-ades ,,-ho ceserc him. !',;ot to mencion the !rnI1dred r.-avclicr-s v;hom vou never rc::d lv sec LL';.d their t:,ccs are wipd dean by silcn~e. '

SA.\:SO?--.: I sec them. I am in the back with them and I sec them. I t:ilk to L'½cm :wd I abuse their gr10dfothers. But I don't carry on like you do.

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sv.f~.os: All rid:t t!1ank ·:ou. I don't w:rnt to hear any more. ~ ,

[Krt .. :m:i slides bact: into hi.(fauottrite p(\sirion, lyi11,~ by tl:e w,ill tf tl:e store or si!::11:; 11p a,~,-::n5t it. :', fos: C'j i:1e ti!I! ,'! lie is J, .• ?f-... ;!ccp, inr!ifferent 1,.1 1t·h.::! gees <'!I crv:ll!d liim. Er:!a Chicj-i11-Tt'fl'tl, a p,i/111c:.:.r:.]

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grec!.iiy.] SA y T. [cxa11:in~s i:, ~:!J..f-, i:.]: Stuff Chief. Rc:il stu!f. c Er EF: I ·will send t.i::c Lanc-RoYer to the motor park. s.'-. y T.: No Chief. Sc:1d it here. I'll send rouud t:1c word. c:::rtr: Do:1 't fail i:r.e. Fifr~n ni!~mes. S:'·. YT.: Chief-m-Tm-.7i!

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SA~,!SO~: You }~10,. .. ~· , ,·ou rc:-:1i::d c~ of a s~ider. ' .

:r: OTO;-; u; \Vhy? S.U'.SO~: Yes, tl:aI's i~. You :ire livin;; jus: like a spider. This is

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S:'.~-!so:-: [::ieeriw:.]: Facialh·, it even rescrr.bks vou. ... () "' '

r:o-:-o:-:v: But I h:iv::r,'r got m m;;.ny legs. S.:\~.:so:,: \Vho rc1c ;:ou? Four rea;:- tyres, r-so front and two spare.

Th:1t is eight ::drngc,hr. :Sue you prefer to lie t!1~rc ;md ·vegctJte.

F:OTO!,t: [irr:t.::oly.]: J kne·.v it would be sor.r~h_i.T'!g in:!' rh:i.t. \\:1!1y ,von't you gi,;c u??

A , · 1 r• · , · , d S.'-.~.:so:--::. n:,vay, ·,•:;:en you get t:::co o. cc:n; a tr;:c~-r m oc:: lo,ri~ Chicf-ir.-Town c;m t:ikc you up as a chug.

1:cro~;c: It im't s·.;c:1:. b::.d idea. At La.st I will S('C ;;. ,"P..1.:l's face before I bsh it i:1. D,i,·i:ig docrn'c gu:iramee you tint. [Say T ,1kyC1 Kid, ::is cyc~-Jixed a1:d.~!,:::cd, acJ;ic1 1cs tlie '_;rote'. He sd.~es the b~ gon~11.i gC1es 011t to tlie fw:e. Bears c>11t tl:e s:1m:1rc>r:s fer !:is ~~::1:,,:: .:.,:J rc,r,ms tCI :l:e s!!,d: !t'!:ile cl:c a hoes c,:rr; C11. }I,:· sets J~~ .. ': jii , .. ~;::·n,, n::'T{' fl/,. :he s:i·::::. ,~, , };i~· (1,7:; ,, u·h .. ~ 7 l1n i,: "':It! ,.... .. .. ·~ i..' C' 1

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1.nd. He giucs a q11ick 1l<'a' 0J cppreci,1!io1: t0 Say Tokyo 111/io

graci<111sly tl'ar•cs it aside. One cf !:is r::11~r;s pich 11p dr:1111 en,! t.ips 011t a slow rliyth111. Say To./,iya, }:is eye shining madly, lr!;ips 11p.

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P.-\RTlCL'L:\RS JOE: 1'0 ci.::--:-y tir:1b::r. SAY T.: .No borer in re o1 boie. s.u~sol's: Oh v.-ha~ wouldn't I g in~ for Prof~sso::- to c::rer now.

[ . ] 'I' ' . Id , . r D r . SAY T. spits. : nae s wn;;.t "\':o·.1 · .-:.Jppcn 1. your ... roressor c:ime m. I dor g1·,.,, a c'r ·r.n C,,_ t.D.1-, ., - ,...,z,· ,..,,.) . ..,,.., .~ t..~ kno\V 1·· L.T~'s an .. 1 .... d... • 1....,:.&. ..J. ... \..i..~ l .::,u ~·u JJ.., .. J 1. .. 4..i.- c.

. ' ' ' . ' I ' lli a1.\T1gnr guy out n :: sur~ act crazy rnm~nm::s ana m tc ;ig you, one of these d.,ys, he's gouna go too far.

A TFti c: The Capc:1i.n ! SAY T . : I'm S:iy Tokyo Kid and I don't fc.1r no son of m:m. SAMSO!'.': Yes you c~n tall.: nov,·. Bue you nm here fast enough to

g:nzlc his ,vine. SAY T.: So w11at? So Jong his guy keeps bringing ~hat s,vcll froth

on everv gou rd, I'm go n~-;a come here to oa\· m:i. rc-;:-;N . .:s. Bi:t a d;n--; go for no cer~mcny abour' it.::.... ·don't mind h~ c:.::.zy talk, but dl the rest of it, nun, it :iin't for S.1y Tokyo Kid.

P:\RTJ C1; LAR S JOE [sJ11:c::.: l1.1t di:::::!1.]: Say Tot·,:o. SAY T.: Thas me officer.

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SAY T. : I mcm, a man has gotta have his pride. I don't carry no timber t..\at ain't one hundred per cent._ fit. I'm a guy of principles. Carrying timber ain't the same as carrying passengers I tell you. You carry any kind of guy. You tah any kind of load. You carrying rubbish. You carrying lcFrs. The women tell ,;ou to stop because theY's feeling the c:;.ll of na~ure. If you ,don't stop· t..'tiey pee i..n ;-our 1orry. And whether you s:op or not their chirren mess the pbce all o';er. The -1.·holc of the lorry is stir-J:ing fro:::i rotting food and all ki..°'c.h refuse. Trrac's a oasscn~c:: loIT\-·. . ~ ,

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s A Y T.: Tb.s me bov. No time for nonsense! SAMSO~: I don't ~ow. I like to deal with people. Jmt think,

carrying a dead lo:id like th:it fro~ one end cf the world to another ...

SAY T. : Dead! You think a guv of timber is dead load. \Vhat \'OU I I

t.1lking bd? You reckon you can handle a timber 1orry like you driYe your passenger truck. You wanna s;t do,Yn and frd that dead load trying to take the steering from your hand. You kidding? There is a hundred spirits in every guy of timber · trying co do you down cause you've trapped them in, sec? There is a spirit in hdI fc: c,·cry guy of :i!r.b.'~r. [Feeis .-,ro11nd his neck

• , · , z · · J ana crrngs ou r. ta zsn:,m on a stnng. You reckon a guy just goes and cuts d0wn a guy of timber. You gorra do it proper man or you ,von't liYc to cur :mother log. De::id men tell no tales kid. Until that guy is s:l\vn up and turo~d to a bench or c::ible, the spirit guy is still struggling in.side

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s.'I.Y T.: You call it rubbish! \\·ell you tell me. "'.;.-hy ain't I cut and bruised like all those guys? C1use timber don't turn against her 0>'-'11 son sec? I'm a son of timbe:. And I only drive timber sec? ·

THUG: Son of timber! SAY T.: That me kid. A guy is gorra have his princi?les. I'm a

r:2:h: :::uv. I mean -vou J·ust look arrit this wav. Ii -..:ou go:1:1.a .._ ..- I , , , _.

be L I~ed b1• a car, YOU don't wa1ma b~ kiiicd b,; a Vol~s-w::i~c:-1. , , ~

,. 1· · P · · · 1·1 • w· 11 1 OL! ,,:;:mra :r:-:.ous1ne, a or1::ac c-: so:::neL'1..i:1g lAe mar. e. c..½as r:1y princii?lc. Suppose you was to come and find m::: in the c.::.::h one day ·wi:h one of thc::n rimbc:::: guys on ma back. No,,· ::.in'c ic gonna be a di~grace if the guy was some kinda cheap, "-Tetched Ercv-;ood full of a:1.ts and borers. So \Vhen I car.y a guy of timber, its gorra be the biggest. One o r nvo. If i:'s one, its gorra fill the whole lorry, no room even for the v:e2se. And high cl:m timber kid. High class. Golden \valnut. Obcc.."½e. Jromvood. Black Afa..ra. lroko. Ebonv. Canw:ood. , And d:e heartwood's gorra be sound. [Ti:11111ps his chest.] It's

' ,.d b 1·1 ' L'k 1 gorn. nave a sou cat 1xe ta.at. 1.re ma.nog;rny.

THUG: Ko dirrv timber! SAY T.: Timber' is ma line. You show me the wood and I'll cell

you whar kinda insects gonna attack it, and I'll tell you how you c.ake the skin off. And I'll tell you whar kinda spirit is gonna be ch:;sing you \vhen you cut it dovvn. If you ain't gorra stror,g head kid, you c.:m't drive no guy of timber.

SA:'1-!SO~: Just the sarne it doesn't much nuttcr what you arc c.1rry-. h . 1] mg w 1cn 1t roi s over you'.

S:\Y T.: You kidcing? Jmt you spe;:k for y0tmelf man. And when tl::tt guy of timber git, real angry and phys me rough, I just do,1'c wan no pas~·:ngcr pi:.s running on m::i head. You know, jt:~: bs~ week I pass an ;:;ccidrnt on the road. 'I11erc v;::is a J c:id .J~, · •., n J ''(\ l ·"l" "'" •:·· ... ~ ,!, , ... ... - .... ~t·· ~ ·'"' ·1 .... ('. •T"' .... ,...,. l .,.· .. t,? .... , ... , J"L; LI .. , ., .... J .. ,- ·-· [ · -· : . k .. - \\,,S a ... c ... . ~u •• 1,,.,

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[ 77:e slow S()1;g arid Jrii~zy,cd mo11erncnts pick Hp tempo, in:erpolc:ed with war-u1hoops and yells w1til the sorma' of tlzc trrtck is heard and they stan:p o:it to a violent beat and somcrsa11lti11g t11t.r-dcmce, hoisting :tp P.:mic:r!.-irs Joe and bearing him 011t.]

SA~!so:-; [shouring after tlie111.]: I hope you all g~c b e:ucn up! [A!wost fmillediatdy,J,o:;1 the clz:ircli side cf th~ sl:ack comes violetlt knocldng.J . Now what ocher lunatics arc chose? [T.!iree tnen are outside) tl'id1in tlie she.do";,(;,·, 1,,v ,;,,, ,fi.;,k. Ti.ll.J are drit•ers, the third is ob:mu!y a car owner) well dressed i11 a rich agbc.da. 111ey tah turns to spc,11~.J

rs T ~-~ ·" s: Op~n up. Come on now, opc:1 1.1p the shop. 1...V c' ve waited just abour enough. It's a whole week since Sergeant Burma died, what are you \v:iiting for?

2 ND ?-.L4. 1'i: Is business to st1nd still w11il~ yon laze :;.roll.!1d sleeping · and .:fr-inking tombo? Even old wrccb go on ,,:heels, let's see

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2::-;-o.MA.K: Kocom;i [E.w_;s <1£.,ill or: ihc u:.;I!.] .M:J~es a nun wish Sergeant Burma were alive.

3RD MAK: He would never wa.ste a d.:iy. If he wasn't there his wife deputized.

I ST MAK: If she wasn't there you hdpcd yourselE Accotmts to be settled on the twenty-punctual.

2~D MA~: Month-ending na debt~7.d.ing. Serge.wt Burma never ' near excuse.

~RD !,1 Ai-:: If vou no settle here vou go setcb am for he:1ven. - , , .u L: !\'o he ~ever let us down. S·::rgea.nt Burrr.:.J. neve: let us do-;,.-n. S.\:.iSOK: S:100 shoo, vou no d::v sleen fo::- ho'..1se? , , " IST !,l:\?s:: ~'\bi dis one craz~?\Vis kin sle-cp for chjs ti.me? 2:-..D :\1A:S-: Tell am make 'e come open shop. 3RD :,BK: You rin.k say we.self we no sabLe sleep? SAMSON: 'Eno ·well. No wo:ry am. 1ST MAN: 'Eno well 'c no well, na -kt one we go chop? Call am

make e comot onetime. :2~D ~1AN : This Kotonu na failure. Werin 'e think'e be? 3 RD SL-'>.:,;: '\'Vhere is Professor? \Ve ,..-ill have to tell the old U'~1n.

IST :-~:\N: But he doesn't come till eveni.ng ,vhcn tbc chnrc11 shadow is on the shack. :

2::-.D ~iAN : \Vdl he's somewhere on the road, let's go try :md dig him out.

3RD ~1Ac':: Oh b:.:it chi:. is nonseru~. Burma ucvcr let us do'\\"11.. ALL: No he never let us down. rsr MAN: Spare plugs, fuses, petrol c,. · er. 2::-;D :\iAN: Wind.~crcc.n wiper t',YL'1 carburettor. 3 RD .-.u.K: Tyre cha$sis hub or tic-rod. Is r ~.1 AN: Propeller pistons rings or hattcry .2KD MA~: Ru.gs car r:idio brakes silencer: . . ALL: \~'here there is cr:sh-crJ~h oll Scrgc:i.nt Btt.~'"1a I sr !,IA:-.: En~ry st:am of scconJ-h:..nd cl0chi.11g 2 ~; D :.: .-\ :-; : T r,'.)\.15Crs ~:ind;,ls tics a,sorrcd 3 H ;-; ~-~.\~; : f~ -~:1 ~!~"';:~5 1:r~-.~~-:1: C~~~::-~·:::: :1.)~\::· r l ~~! :.~.-..~,-:-.. -~:-·st,:, :- \..i: i:J:-.- ·:~, :-! :·::-:;3 ~:.1·!1·: ~:- .. ~:.~:~~: :. :::

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: ~D :-.:.'-.~: Hoo~.s t.::::'::-::-H.:s, p00: S:::-;c.mt B-..::-rr::1 ALL: ~o he never let us d0\\'1l, no he never quit hi, rost. '~- \! • ,-· L··· ,. "T"0 \Y. ·' 1 ! (T"'t- p,-. C-.v-"'l-,. ct.. s--- r\:.. "' ~-,. _.,__,_ -· s g,. , · L 1 _,. :.. ••• 0,_,~'-· .o .. :i _ • .•• ,on __ -, '"D 'I''-'· C-,11 J,;m,";1· ., .., ... ,.,._,~, .,~r; -·" .;'i _ ..... _,, ..... 1 1 .,J,., ......,.._,. LL t'-~~ ~'t ... 1.<\~\o.. .L •

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.ALL: No he never let us down. Burma never let us down. [O_ffrage by now.] [Er:tcr Saiubi, d0g-tird. He carries a bou•l of SQ:1p end a n:a:md of eba wrapp~d in lea11es.]

SAL UBI: No luck. A.."1d my legs arc d~ad. SAMso:-;: You should leave them in vour trous:::rs :md sc:1::-ch them

w-it::1 your clothes. SAU.:Br: It is no jokin~ macrcr. s A ~.1 so"': I ,.vish vou ·would r;;.!-;:e a ba,: ... I could smdl vour , ,

approach five m:nu:cs before you come in. SAL UBI: Good for you. And I hope you get your Kotonu back

on the road soon so I CJ..D have some peace. SA;1,iSO!'. : And 1 ho;:,".'. vou r.rct Your Yess;;.h YessahJ;ob soon so we

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c:1n brc:ithc some fresh air. SALl;BI: You are ju5t Llke a haggl::1g: market woma:1. Why don't

you go and gee your fr~sh air from the motor park. Before you rwo came I used to have a clear three hours here by myself, thee hours of peace before the others start to drift ' ' ' · h . i:; ·1 "·-·- ... i..:. ,;!tc t .elf ... ngcr-na1 s.

SA.\1S0:N; And pick lice off cl1cir bodics-do~'t leave out your o,vn

speciality. [Sah1hi opens liis :~:011!!1 to rcpry, gh·es 11p ,rnd sits do:.vn to liis meal. He h.1S jiHt stirred the so11p with his fi1:ger 11'1:w Samso11 pow:ces 011 l1i111.]

$A~,1s0~.;: \Vlut is th~.c? You h:ivcn't got stock.fish in there h:i.Yc you? s.-uuor: Stc·.:kfoh? Oh you mean this p:inh? Ccrc;;.inly! s .-n1 so N: The whole \ ... -orld is surdy d~r~rmi:1ed to min me. Get

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s .-uuBr: ½that is all chis? Yo:.i k...-cn't :my r:g::: ~o c.:::ive m:: out of here. Profusor doesn't r:1.ind me at :?li.

SAM S ox: That is what you th.ink. Bu: he p:mi.:uhr1y ol->jccts to stockfuh. H e says the smell disrurbs his spirits. Now go ouc before he comes :md e:ttches you here.

SALUBI: I don't be!ie,·e th.:ic lie. SA !->lSO N: You arc Iud .. ·-y-Kcrnnu is a.sleep. Tr..e Profossor ?Ut him in

1 ' ' C ' • ! -} ' 1 ·11 c 12.rgc agamst t.'1at sort o. t:ung. t 1e \\-~~cs up ne \':u. rc?on you md the Pro:cssor "·-ill deal \\; ch you.

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I don't care one panla for you: P::ofesso:. H~ can't co !JlC

a..11 yching. SAMS OK: Good. Very good. I'll tell him when he co:nes. I'll tdl

him about this morning. And he'll send the ·word to get you in the ccad of n.i;ht.

S.'dXBI: Tell him if:·ou like. One of these clays the police ·will catch up ,,;ch h::n. And. ci1cy'Il put him wher:: he belor.gs­in the lu.·utic asyium of chc prison. Don't think you ca.a scare rr.c with that ·,\·ord business.

SAMSON:JU5t go out. I will deliver your mcs~.:i.gc. [Usliering him 01/t.]

SALliB I: Ddiver it. I don't care. Or do you think I d.on't know about the church fonds? Tell him the d:iy the police c~d: h.:m I will com:: and tesrify against him. The man is a mc:.JJCC.

Pulling up road-signs ;,;nd talking all due mumbo-jumbo. SA~:sor-:: Yes, yes, I'll cell him. Bue don't ever brini; s~od:.fish in

here ag:-..in. SAL t; B_r: A bit of scocldish won't do his brJ.m any harm-you cdl

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r.oTONG: I d.idn'c lock it. Just rr:moYc tl:e bo:1..rd. [Sa11:.,,>11 J11mps, 1~·::ilks away angrily.]

s AM so~: \\'ho do v0u rb.ici: is intercst~d iu \'Our a10:-bid I I

mcrch.mdise? ~OTO!\'U: I n:.:vcr said you ,vc:e.

J 1 • h T1 • 1 SAMSON : LLSt tile same, you astorus me. ncrc are m:my s1c:s

to you v.-hich I have never suspected. I m~n, to think that we grew up togctl:cr.

KOTONU: I ,vish you would stop walking up and down. I am trying to sleep.

SAMSON: Shouldn't you open up shop. Somebody might want a dripping cushion from the last cnsh.

K.OTONU: I havc:n't begun. selling ycc. Need a few more ihys to work myself up to it.

SAMSON: \'\.'ho do you think you are fooling? Didn' t yo~ sdl Salubi his uniform?

KOTONU: I didn't sell him any7:hing. He stole it. I saw J,jm take it so I s:i.id he was wc:Icome to keep it.

SAMSON: He didn't buy it? KOTONU: I gave it to him. SAMSON: Th.at ma.n not only stinks like Lagos lagoon, he lies like

a Lagos girl. :KOTONU: Leave him alone. \Vhy do you keep on :n: him? SAMSON : I'll tell you why. He is waiting to t:..ke your licence. KOTOt-;U: ·well ,vhy doesn't he $:iJ so? SAMSON: Oh he ,von' t say a dung you CJ.n count on that. Tiut he

keeps hanging around so he can buy it che:ip off you. Then Profossor will perform his artistry on it.

KOTO:NU: \Vhcn he comes tell him he can have it. SAMSON: I'd soe;ner give it to a dog. In fact give it to me no,v.

I no lonsa trust you ,,ith it. :r:o-ro.-.u: T1kc it. It is h::i.nging up over there.

[Sam.son retrieves the lica:ce, p1lts it in his pocket.} SAMSON: At lc:ist I will see tbc we gr.ta decent price for it-and

noc frc,m any smelly monkey in uniform eitl1er. Nine yc:1rs v.-e lt:we been together ;md nov-: :ill you want to do is be a shnp--kr,:- rcr.

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me? How am I to li\·e wi:..½o:.t t~c _r,•pn !.ug bo:i::d cf J. p;i.ss~ngcr k1 rry?

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condt:c:or. On::- of th::m wi!l uL: yo•.1. SA~1so~: Yes.. One of them \\-ii! c:t.ke me. ~in~ y<..-:irs we bve

,vorkc-d together, and now you wan~ me to go an.d j oi...·1 :i.ny driver who h:ippens along. .

XOTONU: Suppose I had got killed in an accident? fr could have been us at the brid~e.

SAMSON: But it •;:asn't. The ot.~er lorry owrtook us-that's diviuc providence for you. .

KOTONU: One mile. Only one more mile and we would have been &-st at tbc bridge.

SAMSON [angry.]: \1/hy 2o you keep oo about it? T,cy ovc::tock us-that's their luck. It v;as anybody's ch:1.nce. [He walks abc11t tl,e room. Stops to loo,1: at the spic'cr.]

SA~.!SON: Your-brother is ho.vi...'1.g dinner. Hm.Jillt the wings left of that By.

KOTONU: Tne road and the spider lie gloating, then the fly buzzes along like a happy fool ..•

s M,! so~ [ver; lr.miedly.]: J-,.11 right all right. KOTONU: But why they and not m? Their n~es weren't carved

on the rotten v .. ·ood. S.-\ M:s o N ( walking ,~pidly away from tlie comer.]; All right I've heard

you. I can understand. I am not deaf. lWTO.NU: ·What's the matter? I was only trying to undc~tand. SAMSON: I don't \Vant to know. Just don't give up driving

tbac's all I am trying to tell you. fKv:.,:,;: ;/":..):s, . . :: ..•. <-;-: ~ mean, just look at ic like a rc:-.so~bl;; man. What el~c ar·e you good for? Nothing. (Professor e1,ters from the side of the c!:11:-ch. rVith dign ijz.c:l c,wtion he looks ,0111:d to maJ>.e sure he is not ofoerverl. Looh tlno11gl: the open window as if lie is peeping thro11.~li tJ trnrro,v cl1i1;.t Tests the walls with his walking stick. PJ.hs crei·iccs in the tPall for signs of wcah:ning. Shakes his liead sadly, crosses tl,e road to the shack.]

SAMSON: Such :i sinfol waste of talent. 'Ibcrc irn't anv d.ri·vcr in the whole of Africa svho co1r.m.1rltls the steering ~vhecl like )'OU.

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[ SamsCl71 sees Pr,fcsscr, mshcs to rc!frue lzin: 4 his b,mdi~s cnJ f • I l p r • /.. • , I· J 5CCS ti:em 011 we tar, c:. n:1css~r 311•c: .. 1m i1 t•cry cor:ccsar.mng 11,1a,

/ . , l • ' I. r [' .:y.( ,1.H<:c ,:is st1CR very can:w :y.

J\1ctlwdi.:ally lie necks r!:e b:md!c-~ on oni siJe 0] the table, rem(n•es pen, pc1Jcil, mbber and some paper from his pocl-:cts and sets tl1em 011t before him. Samson W{itches this daily ritual in rapt fmcinatiMt. From his u>aistcoct tl:e Professor now pulls ottt a pocket-wi;.tch by the clwin, examines tlie t ime and winds it.]

S AMSON : How is the \Vord today Professor? PROF.: Trapped. Fast in demonic bond2ge. I looked at the walls.

They have not begun to give. But I c.1.n ,vaic. Continue rhe search V,'lth patience. Avoid mirages-had one t.~is morning. If it had happened on a hot afternoon ,vith the sun heavy ou the ur, I could understand. That's the hour of rn.iragcs. But a mirage i.:t the mom.ing! No matter. I aru prepared now-they shan't fool me again. [He extrads a newspaper from a bundle a11d begins to stt1dy it, using a hand lens. Samson t1~1J-toes back to Koto1w.]

SA MSON: Why don't we ask him \Vh::ic he thinks about ic? [Kotonu pretends to !za11e fallen asleep.] Answer. I know you're not asleep.

XOTONU: Yes, yes, ask him anyth.ing. SAMSON [goes 01,er, timidly.]: Pkasc sir .. • sir .• . Professor ..•

sir ... [Professor looks up.] I ... we ... my friend and I, \Ve

·wonder if you would favour us v-:ith your opinion on a very deiicate rn:irt'7r.

Pn o F.: You are cousulti.u.g inc? SAMSON: Y~ Sir, v:e would value your opin.ion very much. P R o F. [with empliasi.~.]: This is a consult.at.ion. s A.M s ON : Oh I am sorry, very sorry sir. I ,v;.1s a little forgetful.

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. but he decides to protr.st.] But Profc~..sor, ',Ve arc both out of :i job.

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S.\~!SO~ [gr,:t~(uily.]: Oh I won't brc~,t!-1-! a word I swc.:ir. You re:.lly :m: a kind p~::-son.

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s1-.~~SON : You h.:n-c stated it ex.ady sir. PnOF.: In Get, 0;1e Irjght aloos, s;i.y chat you arc about to p.1ss

through a crisis of decisions. SAMSON: Ah, I don't kno,v tLat one ProfC$sor. PROF.: Ho\v could you? You are illiterate. It is lncl-y for you

th2.t I \Vatch over you, over all of you. SA~!SON: Yes sir, Er, abont our problem sir ..• PR o F.: Life is diliicuit for rbe faith.less. But do not desp:ir. SAMSON: Yes Professor. Now about om Jif.fic, . ..Jrr sir. /ls you

know sir, my friend used to be a dt;v..::r. PROF. : He bs a new job--with a millionaire. SA?-.!SO~: \Vho? Oh he .. . er ... he resigned ... no he \vas

sacked. He told me h.imsdf, he says he \Vas sacked when he accomp:micd you somewhere.

PROF.: You accuse me perhaps of ... sabotage? SA,..,1sos: Mc sir? ~ot in the least, the thought never crossed r.ay

nund.. Please Professor just forget that whole business, forget it altogether. It is just c.hac be never wanted to drive anyway, and that's hjs trouble .

. P !WF.: Increase his sabry. SAMSON: No sir, it isn't tbt. He ~imply doesn't want to drive

at all. I me.an Profi."Ssor, I have been his apprentice for the past r:me y~i:s. i1.1Jd 1,0w he w2ms to give up. He doesn't WJnt to touch an.other stixring v:hed-exccpt as spare part of course.

PROF.: He'll lose his pemion. SA~!SON : There is no pension in the job. PROF.: What! No pension? Zvhac is yuur Trade Union doic1g

about it? SAMSON: Professor, wh~1t I mean is, how c.;n a man cut off p:ut

· of himself l.i..1-:e rh:tt. Just look ac him. He is not complrte wid1our a 1r.oror lorrv.

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;, ~ c F.: H~ ',1;:is a r0:,d mender too? s ,\ ?-.l SON: Sir? But I told you he is a driYer. Pl,OF. [t.:1!-:es o:,;t his wr.tch cmJ fooh at it.] : Hm. SAMSON: Is it \Yorkiug now Professor? PROF.: No. But it still cells the time. · Y.OTONU [sitting 11p.]: Isn't Murano here? SAMSON [agitatedly.]: You sec Professor. Now i\kra..no has become

his evensong. PROF. [looks 11p at the church winduu1.]: It is ;;.ot ye: the hour of

communion. s A.~f so :s [turns angrily to Kotomt.]: That is all you v-::mt to do now.

Sit here dropping s:iliva until Murano tt!.ms up. :KOTOKl.': Wn.at's ,;vrong vvith chat. I say I ,Y:tnt to n:ti.re. SA.'-~SO~: People retire at si:'-"ty-like Professor h ere. PROF. [without looking 11p.]: A sma11 correction-I am not yet si.xry.

Fifty-nine poW1ds seven shillings and t\venty-one pcnce­u'tiat is my real age.

E:OTONU: And build up the business. SA.MSON: Yes. By giving away u.niforms to anyone who can steal

one. You fancy yourself :i. busi:1::ss man don't you? ROTO::-rn: \.Vhy not? Sct'gcant Burma didn't do badly. If he cuuld

do it rn c.:in I. . . .

SAMSO:--: Lcok Profe$sor, help me to t:ilk to him. lt is just wh:it · our people s::iy-the man ·w-ith a head is looking- for a cap

d th . , 1 k ' 1 •. · ,. . an e ~nan witn .1 cip ac ,s tnc ..i~.c.. v, r,~-~ yo !.! ::.c.::~!: :~cv1 much a licrncc costs in tli.is pbce.

Y.:OTON u: I'm not complaining. SAMSON: Why should you? I p:1iJ for your licence. But I don't

compbi.rr bcc:1ux it w:1s a good invcstment.\Vas. 1'.0TONU: Yes, \"Va$. Unol this. [From tlie stare he pll!ls out afi,ll

O,fm mask, held in sl:,1pe wirh sticb. ] SAMSON: I don't know why you still n.:t.1in that! KOTo:-;u: It h:is to s,:1y v:;ch inc. [Bo:...1s decr!y.]

My hum bl~ 91:ot:. to the h.1r--:cst of the :-c;id.

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PR o F.: God rot yoar coward bones! Do you think not enough people die here t,\at you must come and dU"eaten me with death? You spurious spew. You instrument of mortgage. You unlicensed appendage of the steering \vheel- [throws the slzili:'ng 011t of door.] I refuse to touch your case.

SAL UBI [prostrating.fiat on his belly.]: Oga I beg you sir. I sorry too much. I will never do so again sir.

PROF. [in mounting rage.]: Get out. Get out! And don't let me see you in here again. Do you think I keep pews at the waking for any false contractor to death. Suicide! May the elusive Word crack your bones in a hundred splinters!

SAL UBI [cowers, terror-stricken.]: Professor I beg you, not that. Anything but that.

PROF.: May your tongue of deception be rotted in pestilence from the enigma of the Inviolate Word.

s.>i.MSOK: Professor sir, Professor . . . SAL 1: BI: Professor, I beg you in the name of your father, no put

that your conjuntion on top me head. Kotonu ... help me beg him ...

SAMSON: Sir, please sir, he won't do so again. I will vouch for him-he won't do so again.

PROF.: Get out of my sight, and the Word follow you as you leave my threshold. [He sits, plunges himself straight into his usual occupation with the papers.]

SAL UBI: Komnu, won't you people put in~ wod foe u:.,::? ~ ~\',-....=

I won't do so again. Never say die sir. Never say die-that is my motto from now on. I vr.-ill paint it on every lorry I see­Never say die! Samson, help me now. Tell P~ofcssor to take in curse commot for my head. Enh. Samson call me I beg you, call me make Professor hear me a.n.s\Vcr to my motto.

SAMSON: Salubi. SAL t: £I: Never s..y die! SAMSON: Salubi Salubirity. s AL v B : Never say die. SA:-.1sos: Sah.:bi orno agb~pa.1

SAL~BI [l:esit,7!es ::_(rar.:'on her S::msor. is 1myield:'ng.]: Neve::- say 2je. Y •.. )"' . . ·1 1 S.\ ~~s o :-.:: o t.: ;::om snnK 1.Kc n~ g:,;:-~.:.n ,o::-:-y.

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SAL UBI: Never s.ay die. SAJ.!SON: Your body and lice cay like Da,-id and Jonathan. SAL UBI: Never say die. SA~!SON: Ole ngboro fcJI no foe rob in 0\\."11 grand::::1am.:u.1

SAL UBI: Never say die. SAMS OK: Iwin ogodo.2 Ten like you and soap-factories close

down. SALUBI: Never say die. SAMSON: Professor sir, I think he is truly repentant. Kotonu and

I, we beg you to forgive him. [Receiving no response, he turns his back, takes some money from a deep pocket and returns to Professor. Half-way lie stops, goes to Salubi and riJ1es his pocket for more money, all of which he places very apologeticdly on the table.]

PROF. [without"bothering to look.]: And double d1e usual consultation fee.

· SA L UBI [leaps up like a man reprieved from death.]: Yes sir, anything sir. I am so very thankful I swear I will never do so again. [Puts the money on the table and prostrates himse[f.] Ah I thank you Professor. I thank you very much. It's my ignorance sir, don't be vexing with me like th.at. After all a father doesn't to vex -v.;th his children iike that.

PROF.: Photograph? SAL UBI [rapidly produdng two snapshots.]: Here sir. Everything is

ready. A- d . ~-· • • • .,. PROF.: .n.re you an escape ccn'n-:..,r J.t:m r-r>oto tc.~1<5 'nttanous.

SAL ~BI: Me sir? But I ha·ve never go to prison in all my life. PROF.: A gaol-bird. I know one when I see it. This photo confirms it. S.ALUBI: Oga I swear ... PROF.: Come back tomorrow morning. You have ill the smell of

a prison yard about you. SAMSON: I told you you should wash. SALUBI:_Plea.se sir, Professor, don't disappoint me. Is a matter of

Lfe and death. Enh ! I mean to s.ay . •. [He stops short, hcm~f.ed at w!J.:it Pr~(essor's reaction would be.]

PROF. [6 ives him a long cold scare. ]: Gee '6::n Oi.mide before I dung~ mY mind. ,

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PROF.: When a man ks one leg in each world, his legs ar~ never the same. The big toe of Murano's foot-the left one of course-rests on the slumbering chrysalis of the ~'ord. V'/hen that crust cracks my friends-you and I, that is the moment we await. That is the moment of our rehabilitation. ~'hen th.at crust cracks •.• [Growing rapidly emotional, he stops suddenly, sniffs once or twice, wipes his misted glasses, returns briskly to his table.]

s AM so N [goes 011er to Kotonu.]: I have often thought of following th.at Murano you know. He sets out about five o'clock in the morning, goes in that direction. And he doesn't come back until five in the afternoon. That's a long rime to tap a little wine. Have you ever considered where he goes?

KOTONU: Why should I? SAMSON: One of these days I will follow him some of the way ••• PROF. [sharply.]: You are cired of life perhaps? SA.MS ON: I didn't say anything. PllOF.: Those who are Dot equipped for str3nge sights-fools like

you-go mad or blind when their curiosity is pursued. First find the Word. It is not enough to follow Murano at d.rwn and spy OD him like a vulgar housev.-ife. Find the Word.

s AM so N [ disimerested.]: Where does one find it Professor? PROF.: Wbere? Where ascent is broken and a winged secret

plummets back to earth. Ask Murano. SAMSON: But he cannot talk. :>::::::-. [::.m.ni~6Ij·-] : Ycu ~~- They know what they arc doing.

[Enter tu•o of the lay-abouts, with broken heads. One collapses on a bench and the other rushes through to the water-pot, drinks like a

camel, pours tl1e rest over lii.s head and slides down beside the pot. Pr()fessor looks at them with anger then returns to his work with a ferocious concentration.]

SAMSON [timidly.]: Professor, if you could just find one word to persw.d.e Kotonu not to give up driving. I would be satisfied --w-ith dut.

PROF. [hits t/..e table suddenly.] : That's it! I knew there was something I had forgotten. A solution, a compensation, :. redress, a b:d.1..'1ce of inequ.:ilicies . . . bring me your fri::nd's dri..,.-ing lic::nce.

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PROF.: Wh:it? SAMS OS: The '\Vord. PR OF.: Do you think I spend every li\'-ing moment looking for that?

\\·ha~ do you think I am-a madman? [Puts 011 a pair of glasses and examines tlze licence carefully u,ith the addirional aid of the hat1d lens. Pieces Sdubi's plior~graph <n>cr Kowmi's. Sighs. Sadly.] It is a sign of my failing powers when I am glad for alterations this easy to hand. Not so long ago I would have spumed such clumsy crafumansh.ip, built a new document from old electric bills and thme government circulars in which food-sellers ·wTap their food. [He turns his pen on the documents.]

SAMSON [alarmed.]: What are you thinking of doing Professor? PROF.-: Nearly a year since I celebrated my hundredth forgery. It is

difficult ahv.ays to forge from scratch, and I am getting old. Once I could do three licences in a week and not feel the strain. Now if~ manage one, I fed the life has gone from me. ·This needs only a little adjustment. A neat transfer, not a basic forgery.

SAMSO!-:: But Professor, what about us? Our livelihood! I asked you to conv-ince him to return to the road but you want to cut him out altogether. What v..-ill we live on?

PROF.: He v-.-ill find the Word. SAMSON: The Word? Will that fill his belly or mine? PROF.: Samson. Lion-hearted Samson with the head of an ass can you

not see that your friend will never drive again? SAMSON: How do .you know? It is only a phase and be v:.'111 get

over it. PR OF. [pierces him with a sudden prolonged earnesrness]: Tell me my

friend, were you ever a millionaire? SAMSON: ~'bat ..• who er me ... I don't understand Professor. P.ROF.: I had a strange experience. th.is morning . . Missed my way

and was received into the oalace of mnlionaire. Your friend guided me out or I might ... still be lost and wandering. In rerum I took him to the latest offering of the Word. I have accepted hi~-a.nd you-like the others. \Vhere do you come from? \\'l-:~n do you take leave of me? [He sl1nigs.] But t.~~re, as the bl0cd ;-.rid the waste clu..,g co his feet, I knc-w him. And I tell

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up in a cell. ~'be.re others would have broken out and escape<L be broke into an adjoining cell where a woman ,,.--as detained a.,d sp~nt the night ·with her. Oh he used to tell me all his adventures. 1n faet I used to be his go-between.

He was sensitive that way, he would never use his own son, so Kotonu doesn't really know much about his affairs. [Enter three more of the touts) si1pparting one arwth.er. They flop down like a defeated army.]

PROF. [staring at the gang with terrifying venom.]: Mortify his Besh. Sentence him to mortify his .flesh.

KOTONU: Oh it's too late now. He's dead. SAMSON: Kotonu and I grew up together helping him to push the

truck. [ Confidentially to the Professor.] You know Kotonu was really conceived in a push-truck. Kokol' ori told me himsel( He said he parked the truck on a slight rise in the ground and when he began to make honeymoon on top of Kotonu's mother,

. the truck staned to roll downhill. Perhaps that was why he was so fond of him. Of all his sons Kotonu was the only one he would acknowledge. [Prefessor) increasirigly scarnlalized, looks relieved at last.]

PROF.: Well, at least he was legitimate. SAMSON: Oh yes. The push-truck had a licence. And a genuine

licence too, not like one of yours. E:OTONU: He left me the truck. SAMSON: He had linle else to leave. Just the truck. XOTONU: He died before I became a driver. Ifhe had been aliYi:!

he would have slept with six women, to celebrate my becoming a driver. But he died before that, of a lorry in his back. It beat his spine again.st a load of stockfuh. It was what he carried mostly-stockfuh.. That day the truck was piled high v,ith it. [11ie group begins to dirge sofily.]

S.-\.MSON: We were both there. Pulling the truck in front while he pushed behind. The bales of stock.fish nearly reached the sky. If Carter Bridge had been joined above the road, the load of dried fish would have toud1ed it. We were thrown for;,.;ard ..•

I.OTO NU: Buried in stockfish. It was all I rcme rr.bcred for a loag time, ti½e ~:n:ll of srnck£5h. T om bodies on the road all smell cf swckfish :,:;.ve You no:::c:~~? fTl1p )j• ,1P • . ,,.;:s _.., .·,'·\,a t'"] l .... ,~ .. ~-· · ,! ,5- ~1-

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