Leaving the Small Town Page #2
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- Give the child 50 lira.
- Don't be ridiculous.
So will the trouser stay there?
I've got no hair left. I went to
the barber. He just cut twice.
And how much?
I won't pay him 50.
As if he is selling a field to me.
- This damned...
When I paid 20 lira
for our house...
everyone said it was expensive.
That was in nineteen...
When I was in America a dollar
was less than one lira. - Ali, come!
- What is it?
- Come here I say.
come to village...
in summer and in Winter.
He'd cut your hair for
a couple of tomatoes.
complain once.
Now the guy sits in his shop...
and you have to go to him.
Two clicks and he wants 50 lira.
Who can afford it?
He just turned up hems and
took in the waist a little.
How time has flown.
That's life.
We were much more
energetic earlier.
I was young and
strong then.
I was only 15. But the war was on,
I, who had never been beyond the
hills around the village...
found myself in Istanbul. They put us
on a train at Sirkeci Station.
It must be Haydarpasha Station.
- It was very crowdy.
Many guys who like me never had left
their villages were there.
A Kurdish boy
kept on following me.
I made friends with him.
What was his name?
He was a bit simple
but he had a good hearth.
- May God bless him if he's alive.
- Where is Nusaybin?
- What?
- In Iraq.
What happened then?
- We set out for Mosul.
There was poverty
in those parts.
We asked for food from the villagers
but they just said "maho".
"Maho" means "nothing".
but it was again "maho".
The cherries are over
early this year.
Not only the cherries,
you know. Blackberries, too.
cherry tree yesterday..
and a sound came from above.
- Was it a squirrel.
I thought so too
but it was a snake.
- Snake? What kind of snake?
- A huge grey snake.
What it was doing up
in the tree I can't imagine.
Everything is
strange these days.
Even the walnuts
don't ripen on time.
- The cranes don't come any longer.
- Why?
- Don't know. The
pesticides probably.
What happened then, father?
That damned cough. I can't
get rid of it.
Where was I?
- You had got to Mesopotamia, Baghdad.
Yeah. We came to that plain...
and crossed that
long, desert-like plain...
and reached Kutulenmare...
near Baghdad.
We were there.
We suddenly encountered
the British.
We defeated them even though
we were hungry and thirsty.
And do you know what
happened next?
The English commander committed suicide.
- He couldn't bear the defeat.
But when their reinforcements
arrived, they beat us.
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