...when among a heaving crowd of skinny, chubby, old, young, heavy-bosomed, flat-chested, scarred, unscarred naked women in the sulfur baths I spotted a chubby little boy of about 4. Reminded me of the story some writer (Orhan Pamuk? - not sure - the hamman does not sound quite like his childhood world) tells of when he went to the women's hamman at about the same age, and his dad's friends afterwards asking him all about it. He did not accompany his female relatives for much longer after that....
Sunday 3 February 2008
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