According to Ngugi, “literature is a reflection on the aesthetic and imaginative planes, of a community’s wrestling with its total environment to produce the basic means of life… and in the process creating and re-creating itself in history.” This is also the basic premise of the play which sensitively registers the account of the Mau Mau, which had effectively sublimated in the documented history of the Jomo Kenyatta regime. It is noteworthy that the play opens with a song by a crowd of…
that Augustine would comment on the fact that Jerry “prophesied” that Anderton finds about the cards and escapes from the city. This is one of the choices he could have made, but he decided not to. This is one of the choices on the Garden of Forking Paths, which would involve Anderton not killing Kaplan, so basically allowing him to prove “divine foreknowledge” wrong, and hence making a point that, foreknowledge does not predict everything and make the choices for human beings. However, Dick did…