The Contradictions of Antiquity

By Modest Ipangelwa

In the warmest region of southern Africa, in the country of Namibia, the united family face the frightening obstacles that will challenge the friendship and connection between the family members. Each finds his/her own identity.

Dangles, the first born in the family procrastinates and reject the invitation handed to them by the richest family friend. He searches for freedom that he never had when everyone is home, so he wants to be home alone.

Dangles faces accidents, he regrets of being indecisive. The family is no more. The mothers watches series. The love for her husband is replaced by the series’ characters. The husband searches outside the house and forgets his family.

She shift blames unknowingly, seeking for separation and moves to a different town to settle her emotions. The fathers dies of depression. Investigators finds out the cause of death. The wife is to be blamed. The family is divided.

Dangles becomes depressed by hearing the news. There is no medications to cure him. Psychiatrists becomes depressed by his stories. The brother and the father are no more. Depression changed into a disease. Nobody knows about it.

The discovery of a new disease start with him. He sees Nangula, the childhood friend, the one that cure his depression by a touch. Dangles has a love disease that came to be part of research by medical scientists in the entire world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Jul 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543703085

Modest Ipangelwa

Modest Ipangelwa is storyteller, a poet and a comedian who writes short stories with characters that his readers fall in love with from the real chronicles of love to the Reclaimed honour. He lives in a small town called Otjiwarongo in central Namibia. He likes reading and writing stories.

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This is a cross-genre book with numerous features of literature. The book is written to admire and appreciate works literature of all categories. All written is completely fictions with close related to real life events of a human that happened. The book is written exploring all categories to test human nature of thinking. The book consist of mysteries, romance and fear of a human imaginations in the world that is changing. All contents contained are written in crafted poetic form, targeting all audiences with love of literature.

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1 The Rejection Of The Invitation

Chapter 2 Wise plans to leave the house

Chapter 3 The beginning of betrayal in the family

Chapter 4 The sad song of Dangles

Chapter 5 The interrogation of Dangles as a patient

Chapter 6 The revelation of a terrible dream

Chapter 7 Dangles depressing psychiatrists

Chapter 8 The real dialogues of antiquity

Chapter 9 Unforgettable moments of strangers

Chapter 10 Dangles in the room with blackness

Chapter 11 The connection between two strangers developing roots

Chapter 12 Poetry

CHAPTER 1

The Rejection Of The Invitation

On one clear-sky night of October 1611, a boy named Dangles had a terrible evening. He could not sleep even after he took several pills to make him sleep. He was in the closed room alone while everyone was away for the holiday during the hot summer of the Oshana region, in Namibia. While on the bed, he started thinking about memories he had made with his brother, Daniel, when they were kids back then. He kept thinking about everything until he ran out of ideas. Being just a teenager, in the bloom of youth, he thought it could be good if he happened to sneak out of the house while neighbours were still in their dreams and go to one of the clubs where most of his age group could be. He became indecisive as thoughts kept flowing in his mind, and being discombobulated by these ideas, he passionately waited to calm down with the mental processing of his ideas while he was still on the bed.

The night was not getting young to him. Hours kept going, and when he looked at his phone, it was almost the next day. He decided to pull the blanket over him, ignoring the reality of life that doing so would make him very hot. He thought to himself that if only he were a mogul, he would have created for himself a hotel underneath the water as an option to run away from the heat of their hottest region. While under the blanket, he realised that his eyes were not closing. It was even worse than being over the blankets. He quickly got out and stayed on it. Dangles realised that he was close to a pond of water, and mosquitoes were a lot during that season. He contemplated on his action of denying the open invitation that was handed to him by a very rich friend of his family to visit Windhoek.

Dangles was confident too, that the reason he was in the house was because he was a real man. He thought that being a mother’s boy, following her wherever she went, would just promote the spirit of being a coward. He moulded himself with reason to stay in the room regardless of the heat and mosquitoes. However, he realised that he had not eaten dinner that night because he felt full. He decided to stand up and warm the porridge that was in the refrigerator. Life was going well, being alone in the house. He owned the freedom that he never had whenever everyone was in the house. Dangles forced himself to eat up all that was on the plate because he reasoned that the reason why he was not falling asleep was because he was hungry. Consequently, after few minutes, he realised that he had added on the energy to be active during that night.

Dangles wanted to sleep because the night was getting deep, and there were terrible sounds coming from his vicinity that scared him, like those from his childhood. However, even though Dangles had that foundational fear from his childhood, he wanted to falsify his belief about the sounds of animate-like things that were only heard by men of the location during the nights. He quickly wanted to sleep, thus avoiding the sounds that could possibly add to his nightmares. He thought that if he happened to have nightmares, to whom he would scream at?

He kept thinking so deep about all possibilities that could make him fall asleep as fast as possible. It was becoming darker, and as he watched the roof of the room where he was, he was kind of seeing hallucinations, which were indeed imaginary; but because he was starting to lose confidence, they were becoming real to him. Dangles started to blame himself for being indecisive and stubborn. He could have just accepted the invitation and spent time together with Daniel and their parents the way they used to do.

Luckily, he had not heard any sound that could disturb him or rather scare him while in the house alone. While on the bed, he turned and slept on his side, looking directly on the other side. Dangles, with unlimited ideas on the bed, kept thinking, but the night was just getting older and older. Due to the unremarkable and splendid atmospheric sounds of that night, he kept calming down and forgetting all blames against himself that he had thought upon deciding to remain alone in the house. He decided to stand and walk around a little while he was still thinking on what next to come upon his mind. He decided that he would not sleep, but he would stay on the bed and lean against the pillow while looking into the darkness of the room.

Dangles decided to root procrastination out of his life and taste the real world of real men. He finally decided to go outside the room and walk away from the house. Outside the room was the lawn wetted by the humidity of the sky of the beautiful night. As he walked, step by step, the lawn was getting slippery too. Upon leaving the lawn to the concrete ground, he accidentally fell, but very badly. As he was getting on the ground, he was imagining a world without gravity. He thought he was in space, not falling on the ground, but unfortunately, he was not in space. Being scared to yell the hell out of himself, he kept it because he thought if he would yell, he would actually invite danger as the place was notorious for children disappearing for decades.

Because his clothes were spoiled by the wet lawn, he decided to go back in his room to change his clothes, and this time he was really determined that he would leave the house because he had experienced the outside condition of that night. Due to mixed emotions in his heart but yet unsure of what he would find outside, he carefully stepped on the lawn, perfectly coordinated all parts of his body with confidence that that time, he would not fall. As he was getting overjoyed of all accomplishments, being able to pass over the wet grass carefully and wisely, he hit his kneecap on one step of the lawn-exit to the concrete floor. What a tragedy, he thought he would not fall again.

The pain was intense, and its absorption was fast, reaching the whole body in seconds. With his beautiful outer garments on the ground again, that time it took him long to get up, and he was moving upon the wet ground with intense pain. He thought of why adversaries were upon him that night and why he could not get out of the house peacefully. The time of the night, nobody knew about it. Neither did he have a knowledge about it. Slowly, the pain was diminishing, and with all outside atmospheric nature that he had now experienced, he was confident that he was to be somewhere that night but outside. Dangles could not even think about any fear compared to how he had felt before. He knew the outside situation.

Luckily, before the departure of his family, all his clothes were cleaned and ironed. It was not a problem to choose the appropriate clothes. He went back again. That time he was a bit far, because he almost left the lawn to the different ground. Making his way back to his room through a terrific darkness of the night, he knew where he passed. His