Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte

Author:David Whyte [Whyte, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Many Rivers Press
Published: 2015-04-07T22:00:00+00:00

ISTANBUL

lies in the western imagination like a bridge, a crossing point, a meeting of history and cultures, a background to exoticism and novelistic adventure but holds the simultaneous ability to be both a threshold and a closed door, a bridge to nowhere, a place where questions stop being asked as much as a place where they begin, a place difficult in effect, for the visiting western mind to travel on from.

All the more intense a place to stand then, between this and some unknown otherness, on the Galata bridge with the sun falling back into the extinguished West on one side and the moon rising flame yellow and darkened red over that place we have arbitrarily called the East. Between the known and the unknown, Istanbul lives and breathes like a real human being, the balustrades of the bridge crowded with balletic fishermen curving their long rods back over their heads as if as one and then dropping their lines into the choppy, boat ploughed waters of the Golden Horn. Istanbul knows from whence it comes but knows not yet where it goes.

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