A Letter to Madiba - Posted by Andre Brink
▻http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/12/a-letter-to-madiba.html
“These are private words addressed to you in public.” So ends T. S. Eliot’s love poem, “A Dedication To My Wife,” which has come with me through many years, and at long last I know that this is an occasion for settling down to risk the attempt. It is not written in a rush of youthful passion; it is a clumsy and rather slow epistle from someone who will soon be eighty to a man who could have been his father. When my own father died, I felt diminished, but given his painful effort of getting it over with, it brought both relief and release. This time, everything feels more final; the agony is more acute and more unavoidable, but there is also, possibly, more hope, for myself and for the world, to ease the pain. (...) Source: The New (...)