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First Draft - Best of 2021 Ben Okri

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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Love Is the Greatest Lies

The lie is a philosophical story, and i don't do those often. I come from a tradition in nigeria where storiesare meant to freight not only communal memory, but also great, spiritual truths. And the stories are often way above our heads. You know, we only get one small part of it. But much later on, they can open up into te flower into, you know, o greater dimensions. It's just, e very hard to do a tale like ike, ie, like the lie. We're always searching for truth, and i thought would be more fruitful if we started with the opposite search, to search for them. The greatest lies to me have been

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