"Anyway, in this brief final analysis, let us once again set aside the introduction that wounds us so. Like every proper Turkish youth — that is, like every decent, weary-of-life citizen whose relationship to sport has never gone beyond watching a match…
"My son Behçet, do you know what the bankruptcy of a civilization is?" Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Mahur Beste, p. 118. The series of essays titled "Our Great Mediocrity," which we began by searching for ways to earn without labor…
"He is the One who perfected everything He created. [...]" As-Sajdah, 7. Recently, while thinking about mediocrity again, I wrote the following on Twitter: "I've been thinking about this for a while, and I'm making a claim…"