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Why did you come to the United States? we ask. They might ask a similar question: Why did we risk our lives to come to this country? Why did they come when, as if in some circular nightmare, they arrive at new schools, in their new neighborhoods, and find there the very things they were running from?
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Handing back our passports, one official says sardonically:
So you come all the way down here for the inspiration.
We know better than to contradict anyone who carries a badge and a gun, so we just say:
Yes, sir.
Because how do you explain that it is never inspiration that drives you to tell a story, but rather a combination of anger and clarity? How do you say: No, we do not find inspiration here, but we find a country that is as beautiful as it is broken, and we are somehow now part of it, so we are also broken with it, and feel ashamed, confused, and sometimes hopeless, and are trying to figure out how to do something about all that.
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11 günde okudu
·Okunma: 17 Aralık 2025 21:46
·2025 43. kitabı
Bana öyle geliyor ki yaşadığımız dünyaya iğrenmeden bakmanın tek yolu, insanların zaman zaman kaostan yarattığı güzelliklerden geçiyor. Yaptıkları resimlerden, besteledikleri müziklerden, yazdıkları kitaplardan ve sürdürdükleri hayatlardan. Bütün bunların arasında en zengin güzellik ise güzel yaşam. İşte mükemmel sanat eseri.
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