ADELAJA's
"BOOK-IN"
ADELAJA BOOK-IN
"The 'Author' is Dead -
Long Live the BOOK-IN!"
- Oladipo Adegboyega Adelaja,
SOTI Collected Works
"THE AUTHOR & POWER!"
"The 'Good' Author -
The powerful Author -
- refuses -
To tell -
- a -
STORY!!!
And you must stomach that.
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This exquisite -
'PLEASURE'
- of -
'AUTHORSHIP'
Is rarely enjoyed.
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Thus, should the Author -
Still
STRIVE
To refuse to tell -
The
STORY?
​
Why not?
What has changed?
Refuse to tell
Your
STORY
Until
COMPELLED!!!
Since -
What's the point of a story?
Why not pursue - TRUTH."
Oladipo Adegboyega Adelaja, SOTI Collected Works
COMMENTARY
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This Aphorism in keeping with the SOTI Aphorism tradition, poses a paradox - that being, the Author who refuses to tell a story (Lines 1-6.)
However, if one is compelled as an Author to tell a story, then that is acceptable (Lines 21-25.)
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The reason - given for this extreme view is that - what matter the story? - 'Truth,' should be sought -
Who could query that? -
Save for some like Pontius Pilate, who asks of the Lord Yeshua (Jesus) mockingly -
"Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
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Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all." - John 18:38, KJV
Oladipo Adegboyega Adelaja, SOTI Collected Works