{"id":148637,"date":"2020-10-27T13:32:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T17:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=148637"},"modified":"2020-10-27T13:32:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T17:32:42","slug":"redux-of-time-accelerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/27\/redux-of-time-accelerated\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Of Time Accelerated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dkY3AH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_148354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_148520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_148644\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/1720\/the-art-of-fiction-no-139-chinua-achebe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148644\" class=\"wp-image-148644 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/achebe2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/achebe2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/achebe2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/achebe2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-148644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinua Achebe.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This week, we\u2019re highlighting work by Nigerian writers in the archive and the current issue. Read on for Chinua Achebe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/1720\/the-art-of-fiction-no-139-chinua-achebe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Eloghosa Osunde\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7583\/good-boy-eloghosa-osunde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Good Boy<\/a>,\u201d and Wole Soyinka\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2533\/your-logic-frightens-me-mandela-wole-soyinka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Your Logic Frightens Me Mandela<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=ENAPRFX&amp;type=S&amp;gift_key=TESTFXG&amp;utm_source=ReduxBlogpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>?\u00a0Or take advantage of our <a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/tpr\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=GRNPREM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new subscription bundle<\/a>, bringing you four issues of the print magazine, access to our full sixty-seven-year digital archive, and our new <a href=\"https:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/collections\/accessories\/products\/our-new-green-and-lavender-tote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TriBeCa tote<\/a> for only $69 (plus free shipping!). And for as long as we\u2019re flattening the curve, <em>The Paris Review<\/em> will be sending out a new weekly newsletter, The Art of Distance, featuring unlocked archival selections, dispatches from the <em>Daily<\/em>, and efforts from our peer organizations. Read the latest edition\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/theparisreview.org\/the-art-of-distance-no-136242\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, and then\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=35491ea532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/1720\/the-art-of-fiction-no-139-chinua-achebe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinua Achebe, The Art of Fiction No. 139<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 133, Winter 1994<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>How much do you think writers should engage themselves in public issues?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ACHEBE<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t lay down the law for anybody else. But I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens. They are generally adults. My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don\u2019t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I don\u2019t take.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_148667\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7583\/good-boy-eloghosa-osunde\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148667\" class=\"wp-image-148667 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/osunde.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/osunde.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/osunde-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/osunde-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-148667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Michael Sander. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7583\/good-boy-eloghosa-osunde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Good Boy<\/a><br \/>\nBy Eloghosa Osunde<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 234, Fall 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Start here: I\u2019m not inspiring. When I first moved to Lagos, I didn\u2019t come here with good mind. I came here with one mission and one mission only: to get a lot of money, so as to prove my popsy wrong. That\u2019s all. For me, blood family doesn\u2019t mean shit. Family is your spine dividing into four, hot metal in your back, red life shooting out of you in a geyser. It\u2019s you falling forward in slow motion, a yelp in your neck, whole outfit ruined in the air. You, reading this, you\u2019re here, alive, because your parents synced and you showed up. That\u2019s it. Even if they planned for a child, it was still a raffle draw. A hand went in a bowl and picked you. The tree shook and a fruit fell down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_148668\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2533\/your-logic-frightens-me-mandela-wole-soyinka\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148668\" class=\"wp-image-148668 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/soyinka.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/soyinka.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/soyinka-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/soyinka-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-148668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Tom Woodward. CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2533\/your-logic-frightens-me-mandela-wole-soyinka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Your Logic Frightens Me Mandela<\/a><br \/>\nBy Wole Soyinka<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 107, Summer 1988<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your logic frightens me, Mandela,<br \/>\nYour logic frightens me. Those years<br \/>\nOf dreams, of time accelerated in<br \/>\nVisionary hopes, of savouring the task anew,<br \/>\nThe call, the tempo primed<br \/>\nTo burst in supernovae round a \u201cbrave new world\u201d!<br \/>\nThen stillness. Silence. The world closes round<br \/>\nYour sole reality; the rest is\u2026 dreams?<\/p>\n<p>Your logic frightens me.<br \/>\nHow coldly you disdain legerdemains!<br \/>\n\u201cOpen Sesame\u201d and\u2014two decades\u2019 rust on hinges<br \/>\nPeels at touch of a conjurer\u2019s wand?<br \/>\nWhite magic, ivory-topped black magic wand,<br \/>\nOne moment wand, one moment riot club<br \/>\nElectric cattle prod and club or sjambok<br \/>\nTearing flesh and spilling blood and brain?<\/p>\n<p>This bag of tricks, whose silk streamers<br \/>\nTurn knotted cords to crush dark temples?<br \/>\nA rabbit punch sneaked beneath the rabbit?<br \/>\nDoves metamorphosed in milk-white talons?<br \/>\nNot for you the olive branch that sprouts<br \/>\nGun muzzles, barbed-wire garlands, tangled thorns<br \/>\nTo wreathe the brows of black, unwilling christs.<\/p>\n<p>Your patience grows inhuman, Mandela \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>And to read more from the\u00a0<\/em>Paris Review<em>\u00a0archives, make sure to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=ENAPRFX&amp;type=S&amp;gift_key=TESTFXG&amp;utm_source=ReduxBlogpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a>! 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