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tmichael1 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:10:40 -0000

Interesting post. I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.

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a Duoist — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:43:51 -0000

Beautiful water; hope you two are having a wonderful time.

Some few centuries ago, there were 352 Greek cities on the Anatolian Peninsula; all are Turkish now with Turkish names, ever since the Muslim conquest of Constantinople. Interesting, for a philosopher, to think how different Turkey might be today if all of the Greek lights had not gone out in Anatolia. Do they read Homer in Turkey, for instance (you are quite near Troy), or are all things Greek (their ancient enemy, including Alexander) diparaged?

When Europe lost Greek thought in the 5C, eight hundred years of intellectual stagnation ensued. Do any Turks see a similar lesson for their culture, by the loss of Greek thought after the sack of Baghdad in the 13C?

Beautiful water; history everywhere. Hae a great time.

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Shawn Gettler — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:35:44 -0000

Delightful! Your trip is much more in line, philosophically, with my idea of a vacation: take what comes based on what you find when you get to your destination. Ideally, of course, I'd want to live for a few years in any given place to really get a feel for it, but that tends toward impracticality.

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tom — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:33:10 -0000

most 'blue' pools are painted white on the bottom. The water is blue.