Baba,
That's a good story. I am intrigued. I like the literature.

>From: Baba Galleh Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Puhus the Post-Modern Critic - A story
>Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:13:16 +0000
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>Puhus the Post-Modern Critic
>
>By Baba Galleh Jallow
>
>His Excellency the President, Dr. Yahakat Comganarr of the Republic of
>Anyhow was a very wise man. True, he had his friends and his enemies. And
>true, he made more enemies than friends because of his ultra-sensitive
>adherence to the infallible dictates of his reason. But true, true, Dr.
>Yahakat also knew how to tread on the slippery paths of life, how to turn
>friends into enemies, but especially how to turn enemies to friends when he
>needed to use them in pursuit of his political and allied goals.
>
>Dr. Yahakat applied his ultra-rational mind to the case of a particularly
>crafty friend he used to have, but with whom he had fallen out. Actually,
>this particular former friend, popularly known as Puhus the critic, had had
>a very bad falling out with Dr. Yahakat. But Puhus the critic had regretted
>falling out with his mentor and for many years, tried to win back the
>friendship of the great Dr. Yahakat. Dr. Yahakat, however, ignored all of
>Puhus’ wily moves for reconciliation, until one day . . . .
>
>Suddenly one day, Dr. Yahakat had great need of the services of Puhus the
>critic. So many nonentities were making so much noise about his caliber of
>leadership, which some folks described as absolutely anti-life, a
>categorization that greatly angered His Pious Excellency but left him with
>no way to fight back. Now, the great leader remembered that Puhus the
>critic was just the right weapon to use against all those puny little
>fellows making unpleasant noises about his regime. And so Dr. Yahakat
>Comganarr, ever the wily politician, eventually made it known that Puhus
>the critic was indeed a very loyal friend and sent him a few Chinese
>dollars as a token of his new friendship. "I trust," His Excellency told an
>excited Puhus, "that you will now use your highly advanced critical
>capacities and perspectives to silence all those jealous folks making funny
>noises about my government." Of
>course, Puhus the clever critic could not wait to nod yes sir, yes sir, my
>lord. So hard did Puhus nod that his head, which was disproportionately
>large, nearly fell off his tiny neck.
>
>Thus readmitted into the favorite circle of the great leader, Puhus the
>critic gallantly set about his task of shaming all who dared to say a word
>contrary to the ideals and practices of His Infallible Excellency Dr.
>Yahakat Comganarr. During the period in which he was estranged from Dr.
>Yahakat, Puhus the critic had dived into the oceanic field of academia and
>drank heartily of the milk of wisdom. By the time of his readmittance into
>Dr. Yahakat’s most favored puppet status, Puhus the critic had clinched a
>Bachelors degree in Groping Techniques, A Masters degree in Virtual Cyclics
>and a Doctorate in the Advanced Principles of Don’t Care. He had become an
>expert in the novel theories of postmodernism, an achievement he now used
>with utmost gusto to silence all those semi-illiterate folks and false
>prophets who thought they were wise and tried to oppose His Infallible and
>Immortal Excellency, the Great Dr. Yahakat Comganarr of Anyhow fame.
>
>Say anything about His Excellency in our village assembly and Puhus the
>critic would rise like a giant tree and tell you how you really belonged to
>"that class of pre-scientific vocalities who have lost touch with the
>inter-textual forms of binary logic."
>
>"All of you jealous folks live in an era of what I would call a
>pre-limboric extra-falsity," Puhus the critic would wisely pout. "And you
>will do yourselves great service by taking your pre-social underlingities
>back into the glorious future of Yahakatian post-spatialities. For whether
>you like it or not, Dr. Yahakat will live forever and he will forever be
>our lord and master and the grand lord and master of our children and our
>children’s children. So I advise you to go and sleep."
>
>As far as Puhus the critic was concerned, it did not matter whether what
>was said of Dr. Yahakat was true or false, logical or illogical, existent
>or nonexistent, rational or irrational, thick or thin. So long as it
>sounded unpleasant in the hallowed ears of His Excellency the President Dr.
>Yahakat Comganarr, it was deserving of condemnation and ridicule in the
>most appropriate post-modern terms Puhus the critic could muster. And boy,
>did he have an arsenal of advanced terms!
>
>Indeed, our common townsfolk were so extremely impressed with the seemingly
>endless array of educated terms Puhus the critic knew that after listening
>to him put some cheeky folk down, they all would wildly stare and hold
>their mouths and call him sir. At which point Puhus the critic would sagely
>look around and ask, whatyasay?
>
>Our common townsfolk were even more amazed at the great guy’s seemingly
>boundless reserves of critical energy. For truth to say, Puhus the critic
>was an army of one against the entire big wide world, fighting not for such
>simplistic and outmoded things as truth or lies, justice or injustice,
>sense or nonsense, but an army of one dedicated to the total defense and
>liberation of His Pious Excellency the President, Dr. Yahakat Comganarr of
>the famous Republic of Anyhow, from the evil mouths of jealous intellectual
>midgets. Which was why our common townsfolk really felt that Puhus the
>critic deserves recognition and a huge slap on the back. Whoap!! Six
>fingers for Puhus the critic!!
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