Haper Lee Odullu Amerikali roman yazari ve avukat James Grippando'nun dogum gunu (27 Ocak 1958)
"Cantada bir suru harita ve seyahat kitabi vardi ama bunları ortaya cikarip herkese Kolombiya'ya yalniz basina giden basit bir turist oldugumu ilan etmek istemiyordum. Kitaplari zaten birkac kez okumustum. Bogota'nin bazi bolgelerinin Miami'yi andirdigini ve bazi semtlerde ise vahsetin kol gezdigini ogrenmistim. Bogota'da gelecegin mimarisi, eski koloni kiliseleri ve Kolombiya oncesinden cagdas sanata kadar cok sey sergileyen dunya capinda muzeler oldugunu biliyordum. Sehrin sokaklarinda cesitli zenginle fakiri, yuk katirlariyla pahali Porsche arabaları bir arada gorebiliyordunuz. Sehirde pek cok buyuk ve luks restoran vardi. Aslinda bir turist olarak gelip gorebilecegim bir yerdi ama insani korkutan bir de istatistigi vardi; her saat bir insan olduruluyordu sehirde. Olumlerin bazilari kaza sonucuydu ama gunde en az sekiz cinayet isleniyordu; yilda iki bin bes yuz kisinin de 'bilinmeyen nedenler' sonuncu oldugu dusunulurse bu sayi daha da artabilirdi. Yillik cinayet olaylarinin orani Miami, New York, Atlanta ve Los Angeles toplamindan yuksekti." Kral Fidyesi
"The bag was filled with maps and travel books, things I didn’tdare pull out in public and effectively announce to the worldthat I was a naive American tourist traveling alone to Colombia.I’ d already read all of them several times anyway. The travelhype made Bogotá sound vaguely like Miami, sophisticated insome segments, crude and violent in others. It boasted futuristicarchitecture and old colonial churches, world-class museumsthat showcased everything from pre-Columbian to contempo-rary art. It was a vibrant mix of all things Colombian—cultur-ally diverse, an intellectual center, its busy streets a forum for thedaily clash between rich and poor, pack mules and Porsches.There was no shortage of great restaurants either. It seemed likea city I might have actually liked to visit under different circum-stances, save for one glaring statistic: Every hour someone gotkilled. Some deaths were accidents, but as many as eight a daywere homicides—more, if you counted at least a portion of thetwenty-five hundred annual deaths from “unknown causes.”The confirmed homicides alone added up to an annual murderrate higher than that in Miami, New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles combined."
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