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“Although insistence on the impossible may seem romantic at first, it becomes a pitiful thing over time.”
“Ode to the Moment of Refreshment” tells in an ironic and striking language the story of the intersection of paths of two adult men in a lodge, who cannot cope with the helpless and guilty child inside them and who cannot find a footing in this world. Tamer is a Renaissance fan and a painter who has never been able to create himself as he wanted. During the days when he was struggling to make ends meet, he suddenly found himself in the presence of the sheikh when he received decoration works from the Foundation for Comparative Sufism Studies. Moreover, he actually steps into a distant past with the doctor he met there, Kerem, who has been a disciple of the dervish lodge for a few years. But if we can't feel our feet, what does it matter where we step?
“It is sometimes said that uncertain encounters are the work of fate. On the other hand, wherever fate and human freedom are talked about, it is also said that the devil jumps around, jingling his cymbals and hitting the asphalt with his feet one after another.”
While Ömer F. Oyal examines the problems of freedom and responsibility in this novel, in which he explains the cruelty of the human soul and how changing oneself occurs alone, with effort, struggle and fluctuation, he leaves unanswered, bittersweet questions in our hands, like letters to whom it is not known who they are written to.