The Whale Caller by Zakes Mda

Author:Zakes Mda [Mda, Zakes]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Literary
ISBN: 9780312425876
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006-10-17T05:00:00+00:00

Hoy, Mr. Yodd! It is true. We forget about you when our boat is sailing in calm seas. We remember you only in times of storms. That is why we create deities in the first place, Mr. Yodd. To remember them in times of upheaval. We conjure them into existence so that they can explain our own existence—and therefore our troubles—away. Where is he? He does not need you anymore. He is a fulfilled man and can survive without mortification. He wakes up every morning, reaches for the mist and wraps himself with it like a blanket of the mountain people. He is ensconced in the comfort of the mist and his body has forgotten its previous need for your flogging laughter. I have taken you over because I feel that you cannot just sit in your little hole going to waste. Pardon me, Mr. Yodd… in your grotto. Someone must confess to you and I am here to do just that. I am not just doing you a favour, perhaps feeling sorry for you now that he has given you up. I need to confess. He won’t like it when he finally gets to hear of it. There is no reason for him to be insecure about it. Sometimes he can be such a big baby. But I do want to nurse his sensitivities. He claims now you belong to me. I never knew this selfish streak in him. He thought he was going to hog you to himself, and when I discovered you and decided that you can serve my purposes as well he throws all his toys out of the cot and vows he will have nothing to do with you. Is this the real reason he no longer comes? It is the real reason. I do not go around inventing reasons for him. Okay, it is not the mist. This is the real reason. Perhaps you are right when you say he didn’t really mean it. There were upheavals in our lives when he said it. We were snapping at each other. You may be right, I was the snapper. We were still trying to find each other, that is why. Now that peace and harmony reign I do not want to upset the delicate situation. Yet I feel that a confession is necessary. And it is a simple one: we are too happy to survive each other. There is no anguish in our lives. That is the reason I am here. I worry myself sick because there is no anguish. True love is supposed to be accompanied by profound pain. Yet in our lives things seem to be so easy and smooth. What happened to the pain that used to rack us? Perhaps I am beginning to lose him. That must be it. I am beginning to lose him… to Sharisha, as you suggest. You had to bring the big fish into the picture. We are at the door of August and the southern rights will soon return.

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