"Listen To The Dust Of Istanbul
By Fabio De Propris
English translation: Peter Byrne
Ask the Dust
—John Fante
(Swans - September 6, 2010) If you don't want to go belly up in Istanbul, you have to learn to watch out. Watch for the holes in front of you, because you can be sure they are waiting and watching for you. You'll find out in the European quarter that will make you think of Persia or Samarkand as you will over on the Asian side that looks like Salonika or Trieste. But not going down on your back doesn't mean you are on top of the problem.
To come and go untroubled is what you want, and that can come only with the key to this particular mystery, the right key on a clanking ring full of the wrong ones. You want the least common denominator that makes people one with the color of their houses, that even inserts them with ease into the geometry of Galata's narrow lanes. "
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