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Süngerci Deniz: 5. ve 6. Bölüm

Posted on December 26, 2017 by how_sven / 0 Comment

V İstanbul yolunda Deniz’in kafasında çok soru vardı. Süngerci olmak nasıl bir hayat olacaktı? Ama Süngerci Sinan’a soramadı, o hep telefondaydı. Sürekli numara...

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Süngerci Deniz: 3. ve 4. Bölüm

Posted on December 23, 2017 by how_sven / 0 Comment

III Akşama doğru gizlice kitabı kafeden aldı. Eve yürürken ormanı geçti ve poşet içinde kayanın yanında taşın altında açtığı çukura koyup, taşla kapladı. Evde a...

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Süngerci Deniz: 1. ve 2. Bölüm

Posted on December 21, 2017 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I Anadolu’da küçük bir köyde Deniz diye bir çocuk vardı. Annesi ev hanımıydı, babası tamirciydi. Deniz yalnız büyüdü. Anne ve baba birkaç çocuk sahibi daha olma...

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Frankenbikes

Posted on March 9, 2015 by how_sven / 1 Comment

This post is a joint effort by my older brother Graham and I as a compilation of the various bikes we have owned/and or ridden over the course of our years spen...

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Southeastern Turkey and Hurting Ilyas’s Feelings

Posted on December 11, 2014 by how_sven / 0 Comment

A few years ago I took a short, one week trip to a few cities in the southeast of Turkey on a road trip, intending to go from Istanbul to Mardin, Hasankeyf, Diy...

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The Good Tired Feeling

Posted on September 14, 2014 by how_sven / 0 Comment

Over the past couple of years my brother Graham and I often discuss “the good tired feeling” in our email correspondences. Both of us had a similar realization ...

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My experience with the timpani and an early sense of failure

Posted on December 7, 2013 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I watched Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey the other night. Apart from the feeling like my head had just exploded, the use of Strauss’ Also S...

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Üzgün Ahmet

Posted on April 24, 2013 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I Bir zamanlar Amasya’da Ahmet diye bir çocuk varmış.Ahmet 13 yaşındaymış. Ahmet’in babası Serdar Amasya’nın en iyi simitçisiymiş. Herkes Amasya’da Serdar’ın si...

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Isolation, Distance and Language

Posted on February 28, 2013 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I’ve run into a snag with my Albania stories. Maybe I’ll get back to them in a while, but for now I’ll branch off on another topic. Not that I don’t have good s...

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Rogam/Valbone

Posted on September 21, 2012 by how_sven / 0 Comment

I kept going down the hill and eventually the boy on the horse caught up with me and passed me. He said his house was just a little bit further down and I told ...

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