Turk oyku yazari ve cevirmen Tomris Uyar'in dogum yildonumu (15 Mart 1941)
"Ara sira olur. Cigara dumanlariyla dolu, bogucu, kalabalik bir odada, birbirlerine uzak kimselerin rastgele suruklendikleri bir odada, bir aksamustu, her sey kalakalir; catal-bicak seslerinden baska ses duyulmaz olur. Herkes, garip bir sucluluk duygusuyla ses cikarmamaya calisir elinden geldigince.
Ev sahibi ayaga kalkar, son bir atilimla geceyi kurtarmaya girisir; soguk bir saka yapar, siradan bir olay anlatir, ya da bilinen bir fikrayi yineler ama ne olursa olur, bir baska sey bosalir ansizin, sanki herkes, bu siradan, ucuz ortaklasmayi bekliyormuscasina koyverir kendini; bir agizdan gulusulur. Iste o anda, daha once hic karsilasmamis iki kisi, anlatilmaz bir cekime uyarak baslarini kaldirir, goz goze gelirler. Agizlarindan ayni sozler cikmak uzeredir, oysa agizlarini acmazlar, bakislarini kacirirlar. Ne var ki, o degisiklik olmustur bile; bir irmak gibi, bir col gibi dogal bir sinir cizgisi, onlari odadaki kalabaliktan ayirivermistir. Birbirlerini taniyorlardir."
"It happens once in a while. One evening, in a crowded, stifling, smoke-filled room, a room in which strangers are randomly drifting, everything feels stuck, and no other sound is heard besides the clinking of the cutlery. Everyone, possessed by a strange feeling of guilt, tries their best not to make a peep.
The owner of the house gets up and makes a last-ditch effort to save the night. He cracks a dirty joke, relates an ordinary incident, or repeats a well-worn anecdote, and something happens, suddenly something releases, everyone relaxes, and as if they were waiting for this common, cheap mutuality, everyone laughs in unison. Right at that moment, two people who had never met before, conforming to an inexplicable gravitational pull, raise their heads. Their eyes meet. The same words are about to come out of their mouths, but they do not open their lips. They evade each other’s eyes, and yet the change has already taken place; like a river, like a desert, a border already separates them from the crowd in the room. They know each other now."
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