That is not because she is a monster and it is not because I am weak.

It is because that is a groove worn into me over four decades, and I am currently building something that requires me to be the person who decides what things mean.

Dr.

Achebe put it in a way I have used ever since, when people press me about it at dinner tables.

He said: “You’re describing this as a wall you’ve put up.

It isn’t a wall.