Imitation happened when an unsuspecting philosopher one day found himself equally outraged by South African president Jacob Zuma's Big Man building project in Nkandla; awed, all over again, by Milan Kundera's Immortality; and numbed by the monument to hubris generally known as "the highest basilica in all of Christendom", Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire.