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When he isn't painting his boat, Niko is drinking rakı, Niko goes silent. It's his silence that covers the tables. Those whitewashed, uneven walls are his loneliness. A ship he bought from a shop in Constanza stands right next to the samovar. This picture is from Piraeus, these shellfish are from Batum. These nets poured tons of fish onto the shore. Niko blends his coffee with the screaming seagulls of old summers, with the swordfish and octopi which escaped harpoon and the hottest suns. Sea-scorpions still dwell in the depths.
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Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar, Paris'te Yahya Kemal (Yahya Kemal in Paris)
Demir Özlü, Gezintiler II (Excursions II)
Elias Petropoulos, Turkish Coffee in Greece
Enis Batur, Kediler Krallara Bakabilir (Cats Can Look At Kings)
Gustave Flaubert, Dictionnaire des Idées Reçues (Dictionary of Received Ideas)
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar, Hayattan Sayfalar (Pages From Life)
Léon-Paul Fargue, Poisons
Oktay Rifat, Niko'nun Kahvesi (Niko's Coffee)
Pierre Loti, İstanbul
Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Kıraathaneler (Coffeehouses)
Salâh Birsel, Kahveler Kitabı (The Book of Coffeehouses)
Taha Toros, Kahvenin Öyküsü (The Story of Coffee)
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