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And that furthermore all the master welldiggers in Istanbul before Atatürk and the founding of the republic were in fact Armenian.
If you cared about something, something valuable, but then left it inside a well and forgot about it, what did that mean?
I am most completely myself when nobody’s watching.
When there is no one to observe us, the other self we keep hidden inside can come out and do as it pleases. But when you have a father near enough to keep an eye on you, that second self remains buried within.
Perhaps I would even write a novel about the Red-Haired Woman.
the need for a father always there, or do we feel it only when we are confused, or anguished, when our world is falling apart?
The terror of being blamed for something even when we’ve done nothing wrong is a fear that manifests itself only in dreams. I felt it all too often.
It was hard to disagree with the judge in a country where every man’s favorite curse starts with “your mother.”
Enver’d tell us harrowing stories of pro-opposition journalists and Kurds now being held in the same cells once occupied by coup-plotting generals, and he’d have us write yet another useless petition asking for privacy, a little more fresh-air time, or the review of an unjust verdict.
