evrim+translation+on+The+White+Castle

There was a voyage from Venice to Naples, Turkish fleet stopped us. We had all in all three ships. However, they have galleys that are coming from fog. Galleys don’t run out. The fear and agitation beginned in our ship. Most of them are Turks and Mağrips who are screaming. We were very upset. Our ship turned its tip to the west, but we couldn’t get ready like the other ships. Our captain, who if taken as prisoner, he is afraid of being penalized, couldn’t order in order to make the shovel slaves whip violently. Afterwards I thought that my whole life had changed because of the captain’s fearfulness. Now I think that if our captain hadn’t been deceived by that fearfulness which doesn’t last long, my life would change at that moment. Everyone knows that there is no life which is designated beforehand.  Most of the people know that actually all stories are the chain of coincidences. But in spite of this, even the people who know this reality, in the term of their life, when they turn back and look at it, they decide that the things that they experience as coincidence are obligation. I had also a term like that. Now, I imagine the color of Turks’ ships which are appearing in the fog like a ghost, while I am trying to write my book on the old table, I think that an appropriate term is that term in order to begin to write a story and finish it.
 * Evrim Translation on The White Castle**