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Rylan Shewmaker
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“…I am reminded that what gives a city its special character is not just its topography or its buildings but rather the sum total of every chance encounter, every memory, letter, color, and image jostling in its inhabitants' crowded memories after they have been living, like me, on the same streets for fifty years.”
— Aug 09, 2026 07:45AM
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Rylan Shewmaker
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“Conrad, Nabokov, Naipaul… their imaginations were fed by exile, a nourishment drawn not through roots but through rootlessness. My imagination, however, requires that I stay in the same city, on the same street, in the same house, gazing at the same view. Istanbul's fate is my fate. I am attached to this city because it has made me who I am.”
— Aug 04, 2026 02:07PM