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OBSCURITY AS NOISE IN THE LITERARY
CHANNEL OF COMMUNICATION: THE WRITER

AND THE QUESTION OF IMMORTALITY

CALLER: Hello, can hear me?
RECEIVER: Hello, who is on the line, Hello…Hello… Hello…I..I… can’t hear you, there is a whole lot of Noise where you are, please move away from that Place.
CALLER: (Moves away from the noisy area) an you hear me Now?
RECEIVER: (smiling) Yes!!!

Immortality is the essence of existence, It is its soul. It is that which death fears. Immortality is that which transcends the ends. He gave it to he who would Live beyond the end. Nwokedi Nwa Nwokedi 19/5/06

You may be wondering if this is another reading of a dramatic text or a poetic rendition. It is neither of the two, it is simply the introduction to what you may for paucity of nomenclature, call an essay. For me this dialectic or polemic is a critical arousal aimed at arousing our scholastic consciousness so that we can reason together.
My brothers and sisters in the ”Literary Evangelistic Mission Incorporated”, “come let us reason together”.

Three issues shall be of principal concern and interest to us in this arousal of critical thinking. They are (1) Obscurity (2) Noise and (3) Immortality. It is within this triangle that we shall conduct our creative reasoning and “deliverance” session. Our sole aim being to decipher and bring to everybody’s attention, that which the writer must do for him and his work to cloth themselves in the agbada of immortality.
Let us begin by defining the keywords, which inevitably have formed the key triangular points of this essay.

Obscurity as a word connotes something that is very difficult to understand or the quality of being difficult to understand. The art or practice of doing this is known as obscurantism, which is to make obscure. One who indulges in this obnoxious

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