“Literature has never had a future”

Aristophanes called Euripides “a cliche anthologist… and maker of ragamuffin manikins”; Samuel Pepys thought A Midsummer Night’s Dream “insipid and ridiculous”; Charlotte Bronte dismissed the work of Jane Austen; Zola pooh-poohed Les Fleurs du Mal; Henry James trashed Middlemarch, Wuthering Heights, and Our Mutual Friend. Everybody sneered at Moby-Dick. Le Figaro announced, when Madame Bovary was published, that “M. Falubert is not a writer”; Virginia Woolf called Ulysses “underbred”; and the Odessa Courier wrote of Anna Karenina, “Sentimental rubbish… Show me one page that contains an idea.”

Salman Rushdie, Step Across This Line, 2002

Ortaya karisik

• Doktora yolunda bir gariban olarak buraya yazayim dedigim seyleri bes saniye bile kafamda tutamiyorum. Az once de bir yaziyi sildim yanlislikla, Google reader sagolsun yeniden yayinlayabildim. Evet, kendi bloguna kayitli bir insanim, kontrol etmek guzeldir.

• Temmuz mu yoksa kasim mi belli olmayan bir hava var burda bugunlerde, donuyorum. Yaz degilse bile bahar geri gelsin.

• Bu aralar en cok eksi sozluk’un hallerine uzuluyorum. Yazik oldu. Artik bu siteye her girisimde geri zekali insanlara ne kadar tahammulsuz oldugumu bir kez daha anliyorum. Biz de ergendik ama geri zekali degildik yahu, en azindan “soz gumusse sukut altindir”dan haberdardik.

• Kuzey Amerika’da kitaplarin koca koca ve sert kapak olmalarina alisamadim hala. Bir de kurgu olmayan kitaplara Turkiye’dekine kiyasla burada daha buyuk bir ilgi var sanirim. Yavas yavas buna alismaya basliyorum, bir roman delisi icin buyuk adim.

• Son zamanlarda okudugum en iyi kitap Mezbaha No:5 idi. Gec de olsa okuduguma sevindim. Topragi bol olsun Vonnegut’un, su fotografina bayiliyorum:

ABD demokrasi yayarken…

… yetmis milyonluk bir ulkenin ulasimini, insanlarin guvenligini ne duzeye getiriyor, buyrun:

“Iran has a notoriously bad air safety record. Because of sanctions imposed by the United States, Iran relies on an increasingly ageing fleet of airliners, and has trouble buying spares.

There are tales of aircrew buying spare parts on flights to Europe, then sneaking them back to Iran in the cockpit. While those sanctions don’t apply to aircraft from Russia and Ukraine, many planes from those countries in the Iranian fleet also appear well past their best.

For some people, flying in Iran can be a nerve-wracking experience. Stepping on board, it often becomes quickly apparent you are in a plane that has done many years service.

There are also frequent delays because of the shortage of aircraft. Iranian engineers and aircrew do their best to keep their fleets in service.”

Kaynak: BBC