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Fiction

Buridan’s Ass: A Paradox Redux

Adebowale Oriku with a warning about indecision.

Temi mentally pulls up short. For moments she fights shy of an involuntary seizing-up of her motor nerves. Her legs, most of all, have gelled with irresolution. A decision to stop walking altogether would have checked this sudden onset of lightness she feels – but there is a shade of qualms in her thinking. Her heart is as light as lint: it shuffles like an apoplectic ’s in its cage.

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