Leaving the Small Town Page #3

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We could have won if

we hadn't been starved.

Then we were taken prisoner.

They put us

on a ship to India.

From Bombay we were taken

by train to Semerpor.

We worked there as building

labourers.

I was so weak that..

I couldn't even carry

two bricks on my back.

Even that was too much.

The English guard kept shouting:

"Come on Joe, come on Joe. "

Actually, if we could feed

ourselves properly we would...

wipe out the English.

But we had no strength.

Most of us died of

starvation or disease.

- Those damned jackals are

down by the stream again.

They're cunning creatures.

They hide during the day.

They must be hungry to

come down to the stream.

Whether it was luck or fate

which brought me back, I don't know.

I came back safely

but I had nothing.

What's there to do?

Perhaps it would have been better

if you hadn't come back.

You returned and then what?

Did you get a reward for it?

It's all in vain.

- Saffet.

I thought you

were asleep.

What a way to talk, Saffet.

How can you think that way?

Homesickness is a

suffering unlike any other.

Even if you starve

it's still your homeland.

Look at Gobak Ismail.

He worked in Germany for years but...

- Aunt. To be buried

in your homeland...

or not, why should

it matter, anyway?

No, you are young

and far from death. That's why

you can talk like that.

What do you mean?

When death approaches you

prepare yourself spiritually.

Otherwise it is unbearable.

You must have faith.

It is so difficult to be far

from home.

and everywhwere you look

are strangers.

- That's true. I don't even

feel at home in the town.

- Who knows how I'd feel?

So why go?

Whereever you go, it is..

the same sky, the same trees.

But still we dream about..

our own sky, our own trees.

Look! That dry tree over there

is dead

but it still

sways in the wind.

I believe that when we die

we remain a part of..

life one way or another,

just like that dry tree.

In India my mother used to

appear and smile at me.

I used to freeze with awe.

I found out she died in those days.

- The thing called telepathy is..

- Some people feel like that..

If your spirit is elsewhere you

don't feel if you have a brother.

Maybe it's better this way.

Why better?

- I don't know.

I don't want to stay here

and rot.

While I was in the army

I thought about that all the time.

People always

discussed these matters.

I think these are all in vain.

- Vain? Vain in what way?

What else is there to do?

- That's the law of nature.

Only the strong survive.

Evolution.

We shouldn't waste our lives.

We should work.

Grandfather has worked for

years and what did he get?

Yes. That's right.

But what

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