{"id":2243,"date":"2015-08-31T08:32:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?page_id=2243"},"modified":"2025-07-05T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T23:44:44","slug":"raki-at-besiktas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/raki-at-besiktas\/","title":{"rendered":"Raki at Be\u0161ikta\u0161"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Not unlike Provence, this sheen off a sea<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">ferries gouge jagged furrow wakes into,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">a warped metal sheet whose irridescence<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">showers blind spots among protein floaters,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">so radiant the glare. Or the graveyard<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">at\u00a0<i>A\u015fiyan Asri<\/i>, a real\u00a0<i>P\u00e8re Lachais<\/i>e,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">its luminaires &#8211; among them poets<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">I shall never read &#8211; mouldering under slabs<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">whose script needs parsing to comprehend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now here at the bar at Be\u0161ikta\u0161 my gaze<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">falls upon the gauzy film raki sloughs off<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">crisp facets of ice, billowing veils within<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">a tumbler in whose cloud can be divined<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">not diaphanous future but past murk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Suppose raki had flowed before pastis,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">the Bosphorus come before my original Seine.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Would I not then be able to decrypt<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">those epitaphs graven on tumbled stones?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not unlike Provence, this sheen off a sea ferries gouge jagged furrow wakes into, a warped metal sheet whose irridescence showers blind spots among protein floaters, so radiant the glare. Or the graveyard at\u00a0A\u015fiyan Asri, a real\u00a0P\u00e8re Lachaise, its luminaires &#8211; among them poets I shall never read &#8211; mouldering under slabs whose script needs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/raki-at-besiktas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Raki at Be\u0161ikta\u0161&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3496,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2243","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5072,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2243\/revisions\/5072"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}