“Apollodorus,” which was shorthand for forgotten writers, but also for the rapid passing of time. The name came from a few lines I read in Akif amca’s journal by a Greek poet, Apollodorus, from whose work only two lines of poetry survived. (Who at such a time / has come to the edge of the doorway?) In the journal, Akif amca had written that these lines were like “pillars excavated in the desert.”
