Turkey—one cannot begin with sequences of time. Writing is a sequence—it has beginnings and endings—but life is complex. Writing about life in Turkey requires another framework—one without beginning or end. My beginning is on this page. At the moment of this writing I am in a Turkish bath in Bursa, a Turkish town not far [...]
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A Turkish Bath
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The World Must Not Fade
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September 1983
Bodrum, Turkey
To understand an alien phenomenon requires an effort not only of the intellect but of the imagination. George Orwell
Reason and emotion—One must feel Turkey first. I arrive by small boat from Kos—almost in the wake of tradition, reversing the Western flow. The cool sea breeze, the salt on ones lips, clear skies without [...]
