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25 september 2007

in Constantinopel

De komende week bevind ik mij aan de Bosporus.
Geen actie op dit weblog dus tot zondag. Wel dit citaat van de man die de Bosporus overzwom (wat ik overigens ook zeker ga proberen):

The European with the Asian shore,
Sprinkled with palaces, the ocean stream
Here and there studded with a seventy-four,
Sophia's cupola with golden gleam;
The cypress groves; Olympus high and hoar;
The twelve isles, and the more than I could dream,
Far less describe, present the very view
Which charm'd the charming Mary Montague.

(-)

The wind swept down the Euxine, and the wave
Broke foaming o'er the blue Symplegades.
'Tis a grand sight, from off the giant's grave,
To watch the progress of those rolling seas
Between the Bosphorus, as they lash and lave
Europe and Asia, you being quite at ease.

Byron, Don Juan (Canto V)

jaeggi om 25 september 2007 08:56