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style。

I  wandered  through  the  Chicken…Sellers  Market  in  Bayazid;  through  the

empty  square  of  the  slave  market;  amid  the  pleasant  aromas  of  soup  and

pudding  shops;  as  if  searching。  I  passed  the  closed  doors  of  barbershops;

clothes pressers; an old bread baker who was counting his money and looking

at me in surprise; I passed a grocer’s shop smelling of pickles and salted fish;

and since my eyes were taken only by colors; I walked into a herbs and notions

shop where something was being weighed; and in the light of a lamp; stared

passionately; the way one looks at one’s beloved; at the sacks of coffee; ginger;

saffron  and  cinnamon;  the  colorful  cans  of  gum  mastic;  the  aniseed  whose

scent  wafted  from  the  counter;  and  at  mounds  of  brown  and  black  cumin。

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Sometimes I want to put everything into my mouth; sometimes I want to fill a

page with a picture of all creation。

I walked into the place where I’d filled my stomach twice before in the last

week; which I’d personally named the “soup kitchen of the downtrodden”—

actually; of the “miserable” would’ve been more appropriate。 It was open until

midnight to those who knew about it。 Inside were a few unfortunates dressed

like horse thieves or like men who’d escaped the gallows; a couple of pathetic

characters whose sorrow and hopelessness caused their sights to slip from this

world to distant paradises; as happens with opium addicts; two beggars who

were  at  pains  to  follow  even  basic  guild  etiquette;  and  a  young  gentleman

who’d  seated  himself  in  a  corner  at  a  distance  from  this  crowd。  I  gave  the

Aleppan cook a graceful greeting。 Heaping the meat…filled cabbage dolma into

my bowl; I covered it with yogurt and topped it off with handfuls of hot red

pepper flakes before taking a seat beside the young gentleman。

Every night a sorrow overwhelms me; a misery descends upon me。 Oh; my

brothers; my dear brothers; we’re being poisoned; we’re rotting; dying; we’re

exhausting ourselves as we live; we’ve sunk up to our necks in misery…Some

nights; I dream that he emerges from the well and es after me; but I know

we’ve  buried  him  deeply  beneath  plenty  of  earth。  He  couldn’t  possibly  rise

from the grave。

The  gentleman;  who  I  thought  had  buried  his  nose  in  his  soup  and

forgotten the whole world; opened the door to a conversation。 Was this a sign

from  Allah?  “Yes;”  I  answered;  “they’ve  ground  the  meat  to  the  right

consistency; my stuffed cabbage is quite to my liking。” I asked about him: He’d

recently graduated from a miserable twenty…coin college and been taken into

Arifi  Pasha’s  patronage  as  a  clerk。  I  didn’t  ask  him  why;  at  this  hour  of  the

night; he wasn’t at the Pasha’s estate; at the mosque or at home in the arms of

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