This question is based on Literary Principles. 'In the cold hands of death... His mouth was cotton filled, his brain on scales-was this a trick to prove for...

This question is based on Literary Principles.

'In the cold hands of death...

His mouth was cotton filled, his brain on scales-was this a trick to prove fore-knowledge after death ?

Wole Soyinka: Post Mortem'

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