Category: Byzantium
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Byzantium The unpurged images of day recede;The Emperor’s drunken soldiery are abed;Night resonance recedes, night walkers’ songAfter great cathedral gong;A starlit or a moonlit dome disdainsAll that man is,All mere… more ›
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Procopius said is best: So the church has become a spectacle of marvelous beauty, overwhelming to those who see it, but to those who know it by hearsay altogether incredible.… more ›
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Saturday, May 17, 2008, Turkoman Hotel, Istanbul Last night we went on the obligatory people-watching pilgrimage to Taksim in what used to be the Genoese colony of Pera that is… more ›
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Friday, May 16, 2008, Hotel Turkoman, Istanbul After what seems and certainly feels like two lost days of traveling across continents and time zones, the beginnings of my third day… more ›
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Five times a day the call issues forth from the amplified speakers mounted atop the minarets. These days, the muezzin need not bother climbing the steps up the tower. Because… more ›