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He was simply mad as a bucket of eels. His aim proved to be no sounder than his wits, but this only made it worse, and the name change fooled nobody. s one of those Bennuns who used to be a Misnuner,? people would say. t even shoot straight.? SIMPLY IN marrying my grandmother, Miriam, Toli showed himself as a young man to be reckoned with. Miriam came from the wealthy, long-settled Silberman clan, whose elders considered Toli no more than an upstart hick ? s own uncles less than generously concurred.
D like to get out now. It was 1971. I was three, and already demonstrating the keen pragmatism of a child half my age. Over the next two decades, my understanding of reality failed to improve much. My parents came to despair of me. What world do you live in?? my father would ask, frustrated. It was a good question. We lived in Africa: first, briefly, in Zambia, after that in Kenya. Yet my Africa seemed to be set on an entirely different planet from theirs. As I grew up, I would come to think of myself as being, by default, African.
HAVING ALL but perfected the disappearing manoeuvre, I now shifted my complete lack of attention to the art of falling into things. I was very accomplished. If it was larger than I was and contained any kind of liquid, you could guarantee I would wind up face down in it. Swimming pools were no challenge, but I fell into them anyway, because they were there. To up the ante, I developed the knack of falling into them with the lightest of splashes, so that the first hint of anything amiss was a faint but desperate gurgling from the deep end.