7/5/2023 0 Comments Robert jones the prophetsThese are people that you have already loved that have loved you, who cannot wait to embrace you again, to sit you down at the table and, and, and break bread. “What I realized about the pre-colonial spiritual ideas is that they were closely tied to family, that these godlike figures, for lack of a better term, were not hovering over these pre-colonial Africans in a way that Jehovah hovers over modern day. It was necessary that they had something to dream about.” That they can have a kind of beauty and a respite from it, a reprieve and something to dream about. It is to allow the characters flights of fancy so that they can become fuller, more realized characters outside of the violence. The way that myth often functions in this book is to give you a reprieve from the brutal reality of it. “I’m certain that Morrison’s influence and even the influence of Marquez plays a role in some of how I decided to write this, how I decided to combine myth and reality.
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