Tales of Freedom by Ben Okri

Author:Ben Okri
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781407027197
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Eleven

WHEN THEY HAD gone their silence lingered. Then Pinprop spoke.

‘Now for some peace,’ he said.

He giggled. He got up from his cross-legged position in front of the table. He sang a song to himself, and he danced.

‘Definitely an arrival,’ he said.

He went over to the white building with the blue door.

‘Most definitely the room,’ he added.

He laughed.

‘And so again and again, in an epic journey, in exile, after falling and rising, toiling and becoming hunchbacked, I find only silence. How crude,’ he said.

He danced a step.

‘The trap becomes a mouse,’ he said, quoting himself. ‘Most certainly. Beaten, crushed underfoot, prey to a thousand seasons of sickness. Tedium, neurosis, boredom. Beaten and beaten till you laugh and sing and say Yes! Yes! to everything.’

Pinprop danced another step.

‘A most wonderful concept-room,’ he said. ‘Hah. I remember. All that iron. Stupidity, rubbish, routines, violence and then the illusion of happiness. Impotence. Just that and little else. Except lies. That’s fun, though. I used to know an idiot. “Our lives are composed of too many lies,” he would say. And that was a lie in itself.’

He fell silent.

‘Now for some peace,’ he said.

He was silent again.

‘A room at last. An end to all our wandering.’

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