Ekmek Wolfgang Borchert, “Das Brot” (1946)Almancadan çeviren: Enes Ekici Çevirmenin notu Wolfgang Borchert’in 1946’da kaleme aldığı Das Brot, savaş sonrası Almanya’nın açlık ve utanç atmosferinde geçen, Kurzgeschichte türünün en bilinen örneklerinden biridir. Hikâyenin gücü söylenenden çok söylenmeyende, otuz dokuz yıllık bir evliliğin sessizliğinde, bir dilim ekmeğin etrafında dönen küçük bir yalanın taşıdığı şefkatte yatar. Bu […]
The most obvious, the least cherished. That is, my reader, time. Such a concept. Abstract, yet too depressingly true-to-life. I have no idea why the first letter is about time and how much of it we just let go by. But it is a potent reminder of the easily forgotten. As someone who drifts into […]
On an irregular schedule, my reading of Stoic letters does not flinch. Letter XLI was yesterday’s reading but I gave it a second shot today. I felt I was rushing things just to keep up, but is there a need to keep up with an imaginary schedule? This letter, when read for the first time, […]
This letter clearly shows how much modern psychotherapeutic thinking originates in Stoicism. It lays out, well, generic wellness info, mostly, really. Stoicism is pretty much proto-CBT. If anything, this quote puts everything into perspective, that is a philosophical one:
Well, well. I have chosen, in fact, a denser letter for today’s reading. The ninth epistle primarily questions how a wise person may remain content both with and without friends. This time, Seneca focuses on friendship (more deeply), gives explicit images found in day-to-day life. But I won’t peruse the whole letter and dissect every […]
Life has been happening, and I have had my share of adult responsibilities lately. I moved into a new apartment, which prevented me from keeping up with this small project. Today, however, I have settled in: the carpets are laid, things are in order, and I have returned to my dearest Seneca. In his third […]
For the time leading up to April, I decided to read from prominent Stoics. Today, for my first day of this unruly marathon, I chose the second letter in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales. In this epistle, Seneca mentions the importance of steadiness in terms of any sort of intellectual consumption. He opines that one should not wander […]
I love cooking for friends and family. I also love baking. Mostly because I love sharing my culinary creations with people. This was a side effect of the pandemic when I started my sourdough starter like many others on the internet. I also indulged in cooking channels on YouTube. Bon Appétit, America’s Test Kitchen among […]
This one bothers me a ton. I’m a very curious person, no wonder in that. I dig and dig and just dig even deeper at times and it all becomes too convoluted. Why make it so in the first place? Just download a to-do app and follow along a stupid lines of ticks. Or, maybe, […]
Way too often this urge emerges, and I fail to act on it. I don’t caress myself into writing but the urge only remains. It remains only so subtle that it will not vanish out of existence, nor will it make me act. Writing does require hoards of research hours, countless readings and unsatisfied state […]
