Lokoja: Okenne

Lokoja: Okenne

"A man who works on the street, if the street is familiar and his jobs habitual, does not tire from tedium. He is not tired from rising early to present himself for hire. He tires instead from the slow and steady viciousness of staring at the world, idle and underpaid.

Men and women who build houses are, for the most part, considered illiterate. Their lives lack the sophistication of the educated, whose work is never menial. Of course this is true in part. Yet to watch labourers is to learn their basic wants: how to eat enough to be strong enough for the longest amount of time. He receives the chatter when his body is benumbed by fatigue. At that time, seeking distraction from the tedium of mundane work, he is nourished by a staple of a different kind: stories."