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Her mother must surely have told her the hapless history of black swans who do that. Black swans who delve into themselves Dive into deep, incurable worry. They, unlike the white ones, arenʼt fi lled with goodness and consoling light. Once theyʼre drawn into their sinister selves, they will be wholly consumed. Because of her black curse, this swanʼs grace canʼt be happily seen. She brings on shivers, thus she canʼt be easily praised. Since crowds donʼt gather to talk about her no agreement can be made on how to honor her. Being the way she is, staying that way isnʼt easy... If a black swan has kept alive, she must surely have learned from her sorrowful mother, who died young, how to survive, as she watched her mother rip herself apart, as she watched her tear at her own neck, trying to pretend she was one of the others... If a black swan remains precisely in the centre of the lake, singular, like a word about which no other may be spoken, she must surely know how to be a black swan, who slows down death yet stands out starkly. Who remains different underneath her soul-crushing load. This swan canʼt revel in her blackness. Although you might think she would, she doesnʼt dream at night how wondrous she is. None of the stories made up about her are her. She stays still on the lakeʼs loneliest spot, to ward off the pain of boorish tales told about her, to keep her body untouched by word or sound. But the frogs, the noisiest creatures in the world, persist. Even about a black swan they must croak on and on. They came and found her, I saw it myself. Loudly debating her neck, her feathers, her black solitude, so hard did they question her about the whys and wherefores that the black swan lifted her wings and plunged them into the water, never to rise again. Like an ancient, noble queen who, if spotted in disguise, would do the same, the black swan buried herself in her skirtsʼ folds and drowned. Like all black swans who have drowned, even before time, her shadow left. I tried to save her, to do justice in this world. I got up and ran around the lake, to fi nd the shore nearest to her. Could a swan saved from suicide still be a swan? ... Those loutish frogs shouldnʼt triumph, that was my broken wish. I ran along the shore so fast, so blindly, I only noticed him when we came face to face. How could I ever have missed him? Unbelievable! Could he have been hidden by the rain? He mustʼve been eyeing me from the distant woods. (The sequence continues with The Bull to which “him” in the last few lines refers.) in Kıyı Kitabı (The Book of the Edge); Everest, Istanbul, 2002. Translation Review 71
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Introduction Sidney Wade, Guest Edi
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A Chronological Bibliography of Tur
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