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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Autobiography: Şu dağın ardı İran – Meltem Vural | | Turkish term or phrase: keskin çizgi | Greetings,
The passage is describing a bus journey to Iran from the point of view of one of the passengers:
O gece, kahraman ya da kurban olmanın keskin çizgisinde ve içimizde umut kırıntılarıyla güneşin doğacağı yönünde ilerliyorduk.
Is the idea perhaps a line, one side of which is heroism and the other side is becoming a victim? Or are there other alternatives?
All the best, and many thanks,
Simon |
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| | English translation:thin line | Explanation:
It's something like:
"That night, with a little hope in us, we were advancing towards the direction of the dawn on the thin line between heroism and sacrifice."
I know it's not the best literary translation of the sentence but I'm sure that the meaning is "the thin line between becoming a hero and becoming a victim". |
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Explanation:
It's something like:
"That night, with a little hope in us, we were advancing towards the direction of the dawn on the thin line between heroism and sacrifice."
I know it's not the best literary translation of the sentence but I'm sure that the meaning is "the thin line between becoming a hero and becoming a victim".
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