#river drina

[verdant-vistas]

[tripandtravelblog-com]

Milos Popovic in River Drina, Serbia! Thank you Milos for the photo!

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Bridge on the river Drina... (16th century)

[ssofia]

"The hodja read haltingly, sentence by sentence. He did not understand every word, yet every word caused him pain, a special sort of pain completely distinct from those pains which he felt in his wounded ear, in his head and in his loins. Only now, from these words, these 'imperial words', was it at once clear to him that everything was ended for them, all that was his and theirs, ended in some strange fashion once and for all; eyes go on seeing, lips speaking, man goes on living but life, real life, exists no more. A foreign tsar had put his hand on them and a foreign faith ruled. That emerged clearly from those big words and obscure commands, and still more clearly from that leaden pain in his breast which was fiercer and harder to bear than any human pain that could be imagined. It was not thousands of fools like that Osman Karamanli who could do or change anything (thus the hodja continued to argue within himself). 'We shall die', 'We must die'. What was the use of all that hullabaloo when, here and now, there had come for a man a time of disaster in which he could neither live nor die, but rotted like a stake in the earth and belonged to whomever you wished but not himself."

--Ivo Andric, The Bridge on the Drina