Fiction v. Reality
Sunday, August 3rd, 2003 17:12![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeI am reading The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith and it is the best detective story I have read in a long time. But just as I was getting into this story of a female private detective in Botswana, following errant husbands and suchlike, things suddenly got more serious.
"Right there, in Botswana, in the late twentieth century, under that proud flag, in the midst of all that made Botswana a modern country, this thing had happened, this heart of darkness had thumped out like a drum. This little boy had been killed because some powerful person somewhere had commissioned the witchdoctor to make strengthening medecine for him."
The reason this struck such a chord with me and dragged me out from under the spell of the book, is that such things aren't just happening in a novel, but in real life, in the 21st century!
"Right there, in Botswana, in the late twentieth century, under that proud flag, in the midst of all that made Botswana a modern country, this thing had happened, this heart of darkness had thumped out like a drum. This little boy had been killed because some powerful person somewhere had commissioned the witchdoctor to make strengthening medecine for him."
The reason this struck such a chord with me and dragged me out from under the spell of the book, is that such things aren't just happening in a novel, but in real life, in the 21st century!
