Now they got the stadium at Beşiktaş.
Whoever they is. It sat right below our window on the hill near Taksim Square, during our visit. Turkey is one of the most fantastic (in the Orhan Pamuk sense) places in the world. I’m glad we got there in 2012, just before all hell broke loose. Of course, that goes for a lot of places these days. We have seen familiar streets, places we have recently walked, get blown up by nihilists of one persuasion or another. Boston. London. Paris. Nice. Istanbul. The world we knew. The world where people still try to live. The sun comes up over Asia, lights up the Bosporus, shines on Beşiktaş Stadium and our hotel, diligently guarded. The window from which this photo was taken had a little round arrow, pointing south and east, toward Mecca, so tourists could say their prayers. Sitting at my laptop in the mornings, I prayed for people, for cities, for the collective impulse for life that made the streets throb with life, the pungent odors of coffee and kebabs, in all directions off Taksim Square. Now somebody has blown up police officers, there to guard humanity, that is to say, us – to keep fans from rioting, from hurting the innocent. Now blown up. We walked past that stadium every day, downhill, toward the tram that glided to a terrific art museum, to ferries to Uskadar – Asia! – to mosques and cafés and bazaars, the staples of life. Even football is part of life, with its rivalries, its ballet and speed and power and fakery and thuggery. Somebody got Beşiktaş. Struck life itself.
bruce
12/12/2016 02:23:11 pm
george,
George Vecsey
12/13/2016 04:47:15 pm
Bruce, I am assuming you were responding to my bicycle posting.
bruce
12/13/2016 05:13:27 pm
george,
George Vecsey
12/13/2016 07:55:32 pm
That is understandable because in Canuckistan the ice never melts, so cycling would be difficult. You had a rink in the back yard, however.
Mendel
12/13/2016 03:37:18 pm
George, I've been considering how to respond to this but am coming up blank. May God help us all.
George Vecsey
12/13/2016 04:42:56 pm
Mendel: the news from other parts of the world is equally distressing.
bruce
12/13/2016 05:16:32 pm
george,
bruce
12/13/2016 08:06:10 pm
george, 12/22/2016 01:30:09 am
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