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Adultery (New Definition): See “The Kurds”

by | Jun 1, 2014 | Commentary

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By KANI XULAM
1/6/2014

“Mother,” said little Pearl, “the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. . . . It will not flee from me, for I wear nothing on my bosom yet!”

“Nor ever will, my child, I hope,” said Hester.

“And why not, mother?” asked Pearl, stopping short. . . . “Will it not come of its own accord, when I am a woman grown?”

This mother-daughter conversation between the innocent Pearl and the condemned Hester in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlett Letter reminds me of Professor Ismail Besikci, a persecuted Turk, in “modern” Turkey.


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