A Gift for the Sultan

A novel of Constantinople and the Ottomans

Entre las hojas de la libretilla que llevo a todas partes, como un fotógrafo su cámara, encuentro una plumita verde y suavecita del desfile el domingo pasado del Carnaval de Águilas, pequeña ciudad en la costa de Murcia.

The protests against GWB’s inauguration last Saturday [January 20, 2001] were the largest since the anti-Nixon rallies on inauguration day in 1973, the press has informed us. But a lot of newspaper and TV reporters have been pretending not to understand why so many of us were standing in the cold rain in Washington, chanting and waving placards and booing when the dignitaries rolled by Freedom Plaza.