Presence> Absence
A man living in the 19th century of France smuggles silkworms from Japan. He's married but he had a gaze upon a girl woman whose eyes are not Oriental. The man, Herve Jancour is the main character of the story.
The story doesn't tell a lot but it implies so much. The name of the story 'silk' is I think a great representation of the main theme of the story which is being without feeling alive. Living as if not. There but a thousand miles away. A lake like an ocean, a devil, a saint or the life of the protagonist. This was the lake of Baikal in the story.
He lived long but he stay away from life.
On the other hand, Baldabiou is the catalyst of the story. He is the visionary, mysterious guide who encouraged Joncour to embark on the silk-trading journey. He is the spark that Joncour always needs because Joncour on his own never initiates anything. He just exists.
Helene is absent but present while the woman in Japan present but absent. The desire is for the one who's not at present while the love is always there but overlooked. Since we see the plot twist with the letter which we can call as the climax of the story.
Herv lives like a silk, but can we say that he really did lived?
KİTABIN ÖZETİ
Türkler Vahşidir
They were as brutal and relentless as the grey wolves which hunted over the wide steppes of the fierce countries of Central Asia (11).
Süleymanı Övüyor
Sultan Sulyman the Magnificent, the Law Giver, ruled with justice and strength an immense empire which
stretched from Albania on the Adriatic coast to the Persian frontier, from Egypt to the Caucasus.
Devrimci Mustafa Kemal
At heart he was a revolutionary. He pictured himself leading revolt, overthrowing the despot, saving and cleansing the country (26).
When in Salonika he spent much of his time with some Dominican monks who taught him French (26).
Osmanlıda Toplumsal Hareketlilik
In Turkey each man must rise from the bottom by his own ability. There was no ruling class; no schools specially reserved for the rich and well-born (28).
Mustafa Kemal Abdülhamit Tarafından Tutuklanıyor
With the other members of the Vatan) Mustafa Kemal was shut up in the Red Prison of Stambul. His case was looked on as serious. The police had plenty of evidence against him. He was isolated from the others and placed in solitary confinement (33).
İttihat Terakki Niye Mason
Union and Progress." In the town were many Jews; most of these were Italian subjects and members of the Italian Masonic Lodges. As Italian subjects they were protected, by the capitulations and treaties, from arrest by the Sultan: their houses could not be searched by the police, and they could only be tried in their own consular courts (36).
CHP'nin kabul ettiği Mustafa Kemal budur. İdealleri olmayan Mustafa Kemal nasıl olabilir? Adam Allahın yeryüzündeki gölgesi denilen halifeyi kaldırdı.
Mustafa Kemal was cautious. He was suspicious of brilliancy. Big vague ideas did not rouse him. His objectives were limited, and undertaken only after long and
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Ters köşeleri seviyorsan, seni sonuna kadar merakta bırakacak 3 kitap önerisini keşfetmeye hazır ol!
Ode to a Nightingale
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness,—
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
PART I: SELF-DIRECTED WARFARE
1: DECLARE WAR ON YOUR ENEMIES (THE POLARITY STRATEGY): (…) You cannot fight effectively unless you can identify your enemies. Learn to smoke out your enemies, to spot them by the signs and patterns that reveal hostility. Then, once you have them in your sights, inwardly declare war. Your enemies can fill you with purpose and direction.
2: DO NOT FIGHT THE LAST WAR (THE GUERRILLA-WAR-OF-THE-MIND STRATEGY): (...) You must consciously wage war against the past and force yourself to react to the present moment. Be ruthless on yourself; do not repeat the same tired methods. Wage guerrilla war on your mind. (...)
3: AMIDST THE TURMOIL OF EVENTS, DO NOT LOSE YOUR PRESENCE OF MIND (THE COUNTERBALANCE STRATEGY): (...) It is vital to keep your presence of mind, maintaining your mental powers, whatever the circumstances. Make the mind tougher by exposing it to adversity. Learn to detach yourself from the chaos of the battlefield.
4: CREATE A SENSE OF URGENCY AND DESPERATION (THE DEATH-GROUND STRATEGY): (...) Cut your ties to the past; enter unknown territory. Place yourself on "death ground," where your back is against the wall and you have to fight like hell to get out alive.
PART II: ORGANIZATIONAL (TEAM) WARFARE
5: AVOID THE SNARES OF GROUPTHINK (THE COMMAND-AND-CONTROL STRATEGY): The problem in leading any group is that people inevitably have their own agendas. You have to create a chain of command in which they do not feel constrained by your influence yet follow your lead. Create a sense of participation, but do not fall into groupthink--the irrationality of collective decision making.
6: SEGMENT YOUR FORCES (THE CONTROLLED-CHAOS STRATEGY): The critical elements in war are speed and adaptability--the
it's for plot
“What do you reckon, Ford?”
“You mean... er... You mean stroll off with it? You think we should?”
“No.”
“Nor do I.”
“But we're going to, aren't we?”
“How can we not?”
In England, there is the story of Henry Garnet (July 1555–3 May 1606), an English Jesuit priest who had met several times with Robert Catesby, a conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Garnet learned of the plan to kill King James I and destroy the Houses of Parliament, but felt he could not pass on the information as he had received it under the seal of the confessional. Regardless, for his complicity he was hanged on 3 May 1606 and his skin used to bind A True and Perfect Relation of the Whole Proceedings Against the Late Most Barbarous Traitors, Garnet a Jesuit and His Confederates , published by the king’s printer, Robert Baker, in London 1606.
