Still, the melancholy of this dying culture was all around us. Great as the desire to westernize and modernize may have been, the more desperate wish was probably to be rid of all the bitter memories of the fallen empire, rather as a spurned lover throws away his lost beloved’s clothes, possessions, and photographs.
–Orhan Pamuk
Istanbul [...]
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A Spurned Lover
Posted in East and West, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No One Was Quite Sure
Posted in East and West, Islam, Literature, Orhan Pamuk on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Although everyone knew it was freedom from the laws of Islam, no one was quite sure what else westernization was good for.
–Orhan Pamuk
Istanbul (2006, p.10)
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A Peaceful Union
Posted in East and West, God of All Nations, Sir William Ramsay, contextualization on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Christianity is the religion which associates East and West in a higher range of thought than either can reach alone, and tends to substitute a peaceful union for the war into which the essential difference of Asiatic and European character too often leads the two continents.
–Sir William Ramsay
The Letters to the Seven Churches (1904, p. [...]
