The above quote made me return to some important different threads I’ve thought about a lot in my life, about the continuance of human life, told through a single lifetime, and the ways in which societies rise and fall. This novel tells the story of a stone bridge across a river in Bosnia that crossed a river that served as a dividing line between Europe and the Ottoman empire built by a regional leader of the Turks. It would later become a border between the […]
Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that they are witnesses of its extinction.
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric