The heart of the Alexandrian Library was its collection of books. The organizers combed all the cultures and languages of the world. They sent agents abroad to buy up libraries. Commercial ships docking in Alexandria were searched by the police — not for contraband, but for books. The scrolls were borrowed, copied, and then returnedContinue reading “Alexandrian Library”
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To wonder
For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. Biz ki güzelliğini bu çağlarda görürüz, Gözlerimiz hayran da dillerimiz övgüsüz. Shakespeare Çeviren: Talât Sait Halman
Yalnız eskiler varsa
If there be nothing new, but that which is Hath been before, how our brains are beguiled… Yeni hiçbir şey yoksa, yalnız eskiler varsa Demek ki beynimize oynanan bir oyun var… Shakespeare Çeviren: Talât Sait Halman
Spirits of another sort
PUCK My fairy lord, this must be done with haste, For night’s swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora’s harbinger; At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there, Troop home to church-yards: damned spirit all, That in cross-ways and floods have burial, Already to their wormy beds are gone; For fearContinue reading “Spirits of another sort”
Those be rubies
Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon’s sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green: The cowslips tell her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies,Continue reading “Those be rubies”
12th night
II.iv.75 Now, the melancholy god protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything and their intent everywhere; for that’s it that always makes a good voyage of nothing. HüzünlerContinue reading “12th night”
Üçüncü bir ad yoktur
“Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. There is no third.” “Dante ile Shakespeare çağdaş dünyayı aralarında paylaşır. Bu iki ada eklenebilecek üçüncü bir ad yoktur.“ -T.S. Eliot
If we shadows have offended
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, — That you have but slumbered here, While these visions did appear. Biz gölgeler incittikse sizi, bir düşünün ve hoş görün bizi. Hayaller arz-ı endam ederken siz de kestiriyordunuz ufaktan… Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream