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“Nonetheless, I hope to entice sympathetic opinion and the first trick is to avoid any explicit and long prologue. The best prologue is the one that says the fewest things or which tells them in an obscure and truncated way. Consequently, I shall not recount the extraordinary process through which I undertook the composition of these Memoirs, put together here in the other world. It would have been interesting but excessively long and also unnecessary for an understanding of the work. The work itself is everything: if it pleases you, dear reader, I shall be well paid for the task; if it doesn’t please you, I’ll pay you with a snap of the finger and goodbye.

—Brás Cubas”

Excerpt From

Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

Machad de Assis

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They say I am between the East and the West.

An identity crisis! Whose? Mine or theirs?

Enough of this nonsense.

Take the labels off and look at me. Just look

You won’t need a guidebook. Like all cities, I have my own sense of time.

I am a labyrinth of layers that only makes sense without a compass.

Trust me. Let yourself be, let yourself go.

But be careful what you go away with.

When you leave, all my empires, my religions, and passions

will be your fertile soil wherever you go.

Praised that I am, I am not proud. Much has been written about me.

To those who have found me melancholic

I say, “do not look for sparks in ashes long buried”.

To those who seek, amusement, I do not exhibit my past as

decorations for a perpetual carnival.

I am a home, I am a home without owners.

If you’re hesitant, not sure which way to go as you walk about, follow one of my cats. They will lead you to places, introduce you to people,

point out secrets they keep even from me. They, more than anyone, are the longest continuing residents of the city

A challenge to those who see the future in my past,

I am an obstacle for those who see only the future.

I see change with the patience of centuries.

Some want only to change the past and shout opportunity.

Look at my silhouette from the bridge on the Golden Horn.

Time has not passed me by, it has protected me.

I ask you, the same.

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Cüce

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Tove Ditlevsen- The Copenhagen Trilogy

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Tove Ditlevsen- The Copenhagen Trilogy

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Cüce- Leyla Erbil

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The Argonauts- Maggie Nelson(quote from Pema Chödrön)

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Kissing the stomach

kissing your scarred

skin boat. History

is what you've travelled on

and take with you

We've each had our stomachs

kissed by strangers

to the other

and as for me

I bless everyone

who kissed you here

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The Argonauts- Maggie Nelson

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Çiçek Açmış Genç Kızların Gölgesinde-Proust

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Kırmızı Ayakkabılar/ Kurtlarla K.K.

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Anne Carson- Plainwater

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Hayatımızı bir insana göre kurarız; artık onu hayatımıza kabul edebileceğimiz an geldiğinde, o insan gelmez, sonra bizim için ölür ve biz de sadece onun için hazırlanmış olan şeyin içine hapsolup yaşarız.

Çiçek açmış genç kızların gölgesinde- Proust

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Anne Carson- Autobiography of Red

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Rimbaud

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Patti- year of the monkey

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Bertolt Brecht