For those of you who don't have the intestinal fortitude to read this entire blog, a glossary: OLGS stands for "Oldest Living Graduate Student". His books, his professorship, and the respect of his colleagues world wide (or at least in the UK and Israel) matter less on the domestic front. I'm waiting for the empty wine bottle with the dripping candle. And I still love the guy.Anyway, OLGS is at it again--he's now off to Turkey. Clearly, he's trying to get in all the travel he knows will bother me before I show up in Scotland. A PhD is actually worth something.....the man is smart.
And the US State Department--the same guys who brought you weapons of mass desctruction--have declared Turkey safe, or at least not a place to avoid. Why don't I take more comfort in that?
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OLGS, here, addressing the readers of "Domestic Tranquility": I highly recommend Istanbul as a place to visit. It was the capital of three empires: Rome, Byzantium, and the Ottomans. The museums are excellent, the surviving structures from the 6th century CE are extraordinary, and the street food is the best I have ever tasted. I will send the editor of *DT* a photo of me, the OLGS, in front of St. Sophia, the one-time Byzantine cathedral and later Ottoman mosque, and since 1934, a museum to the past as stipulated by President Attaturk.
I think I'd enjoy a trip to Turkey, primarily because I already know 3 words in Turkish..."bath," "towel," and "border."
Clearly there's a Firsign Theater fan lurking about
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