1970’lerde bir GaziEdebiyat
"Askerim ben! Arif Çavuş'um! Gaziyim! Bilmiyor muydun len. Ahhh! Arif Çavuş'um. Balkan Harbi'ne gittim, bıyığım terlememişti... Kasığımdan vuruldum, topallığım ondandır.
Ahhh! Aldırma be, sonram Çanakkale'ye gönderdiler ya."
"Hiç Atatürk'ü gördün mü amca? Çavuşum?"
"Gördüm ya... gördüm... Çanakkale'de değil, çok sonra Ankara'da. Istiklâl madalyam var benim, dört kurşun yaram.
Off, böyle yakmadı, böyle vurmadı hiçbiri... Büyük adamdı Gazi Paşa, büyük adam! Nerde bunlar, heyy, nerede o!.. Dursun söyle Nurten Hemşire'ye, dayanamıyo, de.... Gâvur mu bu kadın be…”
Dardanos Tabası'ndaydım, Dardanos. Gavurun gemisi, gâvurun gemisi çevirdi mi topları üzerimize, kıyamet!
Arif Çavuş durur mu, Arif Çavuş'un topları susar mı? Eheyy!
Ulan gâvurun düşmanı, ulan imansız! İkinci tabur subayı Teğmen İsmail Hakkı, sarı oğlan!. Ver bi yudum su daha ver.
Bak bu da gâvurun karısı işte yapmıyo iğne. Vardır kanında bi karışıklık, gördün mü Dursun. Sarı bir oğlancıktı İsmail Hakkı ama yiğitti, Allah'ı var, sapına kadar yiğit. Sonra ne oldu ona?.. Ben de bilmiyorum. Şu ağrı var ya, kafamı bulandırıyor Dursun. Dursun sensin değil mi? Ahh aman be, anam!"
"Dayan be Arif Çavuş. Dardanos Tabyası'nda nasıl dayandın, ha biraz daha amca, sık dişini bak Arif Çavuş'sun sen."
Thus the pope’s first weapon in bringing peasants and princes to their knees was the threat of excommunication. He could pronounce their anathema and they would be “set apart” from the church, deprived of the grace essential for salvation. After some bishop read the solemn sentence of excommunication, a bell rang as for a funeral, a book was closed, and a candle was extinguished, all to symbolize the cutting off of the guilty man. If he entered a church during mass he was expelled or the mass was halted.
“Kötü bir anıyı unutmanın en iyi yolu güzel bir tanesiyle değişmektir.”
Long before the arrival of the delegation from Rome, Attila had probably made up his mind about further military thrusts. Epidemics in his army along with widespread famine were forcing him to break off the advance. But nobody knew it. So he willingly granted an interview to the imperial envoy, and in the course of it, he granted the bishop’s plea that the capital be spared. He even promised to withdraw from Italy, and he kept his word. The bishop of Rome had assumed a new role and staked a fresh claim on the future.
'Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.
She didn't correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn't tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond.
According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal.
Maybe that was the real life lesson.
If banana republicanism is to be avoided as the fate of the Western democracies, reformers in America and Europe will have to do far more than buy off the population with a subsidy here or an antitrust lawsuit there. Indeed, if a package of minor, ameliorative reforms is handed down from the mountaintops of Davos or Aspen by a claque of benevolent billionaires and the technocrats and the politicians and intellectuals whom the billionaires subsidize, with little or no public participation or debate, the lack of voice and agency of most citizens will be made apparent in the most humiliating way.
What the racially and religiously diverse working-class majorities in the Western nations need is what they once possessed and no longer have: countervailing power. In the absence of mass-membership institutions comparable to the older grassroots parties, labor unions, and religious organizations, which can provide ordinary citizens with the collective power to check the abuses of the managerial elite, palliative reform at most can create oligarchy with a human face.
Fake Predictions and ForeshadowingHarry Potter
Harry Potter serisini daha once iki kez okumustum. Ucuncu ve buyuk ihtimalle son kez de orijinal dilinde okumak istedim.
14. Bolum’de (The Unforgivable Curses) Harry ve Ron’un Divination odevini uydurarak yaptiklari kismi okurken uydurduklari tahminlerin kitaptaki olaylara foreshadowing yaptigini fark ettim.
“You know,” said Ron, whose hair was on end because of all the times he had run his fingers through it in frustration, “I think it’s back to the old Divination standby.”
“What — make it up?”
“Yeah,” said Ron, sweeping the jumble of scrawled notes off the table, dipping his pen into some ink, and starting to write.
“Next Monday,” he said as he scribbled, “I am likely to develop a cough, owing to the unlucky conjunction of Mars and Jupiter.” He looked up at Harry. “You know her — just put in loads of misery, she’ll lap it up.”
“Right,” said Harry, crumpling up his first attempt and lobbing it over the heads of a group of chattering first years into the fire. “Okay . . . on Monday, I will be in danger of — er — burns.” —-> ILK GOREV EJDERHAYLA SAVAS
“Yeah, you will be,” said Ron darkly, “we’re seeing the skrewts again on Monday. Okay, Tuesday, I’ll . . . erm . . .”
“Lose a treasured possession,” said Harry, who was flicking through Unfogging the Future for ideas. —-> IKINCI GOREV ICIN ARKADASLARININ KACIRILMASI
“Good one,” said Ron, copying it down. “Because of . . . erm . . . Mercury. Why don’t you get stabbed in the back by someone you thought was a friend?” —-> MOODY OLAYLARI
“Yeah . . . cool . . .” said Harry, scribbling it down, “because . . . Venus is in the twelfth house.”
“And on Wednesday, I think I’ll come off worst in a fight.” —-> VOLDEMORT’LA KARSILASMASI
“Aaah, I was going to have a fight. Okay, I’ll lose a bet.”
“Yeah, you’ll be betting I’ll win my
