And why are you screwing up your face like that, and spitting? Because I mentioned the imam? Because I mentioned a Turk? Well, you should think before you spit, because I may be Greek now, but I was practically a Turk then, and I am not ashamed of it either, and I am not the only one, and this country's (Greece) full of people like me who came from Anatolia because we didn't have any choice in the matter. When I came here I didn't even speak Greek, didn't you know that? I still dream in Turkish sometimes. I came here because the Christians had to leave, and they thought all the Christians like me were Greek, because the people that run the world never did and never will have any idea how complicated it really is, so if you call me a Turk you might think you're insulting me, but it's half true, and I am not ashamed. People used to call me "Turk" when I first came here, and they didn't mean it kindly either, and they pushed in front of me and shoved me aside, and they muttered things under their breath when I passed by. I'm not like you, you see. You were brought up thinking all the Turks are devils, but you've never met one, and you probably never will, and you don't know a damned thing about it, and it's ignorant people like you who stir up all trouble. So don't spit when I mention an imam who happened to be a Turk and a saint too, and if you don't like it I'll just talk to someone else who's got more sense. And I'll tell you something else, and I don't care if you don't like to hear it, and that is before all the clever Christians came from Asia Minor, you people were living like dogs and didn't have a clue about anything and this island (Kefalonia) had almost nobody on it because anyone with any sense had left, so I'll have no more spitting when I mention the imam, and while I'm on this subject I'll just remind you of something you probably don't want to know, and that is that in all the hundreds of years of occupation the Turks never did anything to us that was half as bad as what we Greeks did to each other in the civil war, and that's something I know about, believe me.
The above is a fresh air, my friends, so distinctively different from the stench of the nationalists.
