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The author is not the guardian of order and truth. Instead, there is no truth or moral right. The author embraces meaninglessness and social disorder.

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The author is not the guardian of order and truth. Instead, there is no truth or moral right. The author embraces meaninglessness and social disorder.

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Silly word play and other strange, humorous elements. Objects removed from their normal contexts and reassembled.

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Silly word play and other strange, humorous elements. Objects removed from their normal contexts and reassembled.

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Stories are presented in mixed-up, non-linear timelines

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Stories are presented in mixed-up, non-linear timelines

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Borrowing from and imitation of other works/genres

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Borrowing from and imitation of other works/genres

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The real is replaced with simulations of reality

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The real is replaced with simulations of reality

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The author draws attention to the artificial nature of the work and reveals the process of its creation

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The author draws attention to the artificial nature of the work and reveals the process of its creation

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Belief in a dark forces imposing order behind scenes

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Belief in a dark forces imposing order behind scenes

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Nor did it matter that she’d been sleeping with a friend of mine for a long time...All this was in the realm of possibility. Such things happened often enough...The long and short of it was, it was up to her (25). PDF 22-23

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Nor did it matter that she’d been sleeping with a friend of mine for a long time...All this was in the realm of possibility. Such things happened often enough...The long and short of it was, it was up to her (25). PDF 22-23

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A month had passed since I agreed to the divoce and she moved out. A non-month. Unfocused and unfelt, a luke-warm protoplasm of a month (24). PDF 22

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A month had passed since I agreed to the divoce and she moved out. A non-month. Unfocused and unfelt, a luke-warm protoplasm of a month (24). PDF 22

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A month had passed since I agreed to the divoce and she moved out. A non-month. Unfocused and unfelt, a luke-warm protoplasm of a month (24). PDF 22

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“I thought for a second there that maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to get murdered by someone. Like when I’m sound asleep” (10)/PDF 12

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There were, of course, no whales in the aquarium….Instead, the aquarium kept a what 🤬 on display...At times it would remind me of a tiny shriveled palm tree; at other times, a giant ear of corn. In fact, if not for the plaque--WHALE GENITAL: MALE--no one would have taken it to be a whale’s 🤬. More likely an artifact unearthed from the Central Asian desert than a product of the Antarctic Ocean (30). PDF 27

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There were, of course, no whales in the aquarium….Instead, the aquarium kept a what 🤬 on display...At times it would remind me of a tiny shriveled palm tree; at other times, a giant ear of corn. In fact, if not for the plaque--WHALE GENITAL: MALE--no one would have taken it to be a whale’s 🤬. More likely an artifact unearthed from the Central Asian desert than a product of the Antarctic Ocean (30). PDF 27

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She was slumped over the kitchen table, forehead on her arms…”Well then,” I spoke up in a voice not quite my own...As expected, there was no reply. She could have been asleep, could have been crying, could have been dead (17). PDF 15-16

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To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there’s sex as therapy (self-therapy, that is) and sex as pasttime (29).  PDF 26

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To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like nothing much at all. Which only goes to say that there’s sex as therapy (self-therapy, that is) and sex as pasttime (29).  PDF 26

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Yet no sooner had we thought we’d reach a lasting arrangement than something crumbled...We had been walking ever so peacefully down a long, blind alley. That was our end….Somethings are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die. But all in all, this was hardly what you could call a tragedy (26). PDF 23

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“Blocked ears are dead ears. I killed my own ears. That is, I consciously cut off the passageway… If your ears don’t need to die, there’s nothing wrong with them not dying” (40). PDF 36

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“Blocked ears are dead ears. I killed my own ears. That is, I consciously cut off the passageway… If your ears don’t need to die, there’s nothing wrong with them not dying” (40). PDF 36

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“Blocked ears are dead ears. I killed my own ears. That is, I consciously cut off the passageway… If your ears don’t need to die, there’s nothing wrong with them not dying” (40). PDF 36

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“Blocked ears are dead ears. I killed my own ears. That is, I consciously cut off the passageway… If your ears don’t need to die, there’s nothing wrong with them not dying” (40). PDF 36

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A month had passed since I agreed to the divoce and she moved out. A non-month. Unfocused and unfelt, a luke-warm protoplasm of a month (24). PDF 22

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A month had passed since I agreed to the divoce and she moved out. A non-month. Unfocused and unfelt, a luke-warm protoplasm of a month (24). PDF 22

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“I thought for a second there that maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to get murdered by someone. Like when I’m sound asleep” (10)/PDF 12

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There were, of course, no whales in the aquarium….Instead, the aquarium kept a what 🤬 on display...At times it would remind me of a tiny shriveled palm tree; at other times, a giant ear of corn. In fact, if not for the plaque--WHALE GENITAL: MALE--no one would have taken it to be a whale’s 🤬. More likely an artifact unearthed from the Central Asian desert than a product of the Antarctic Ocean (30). PDF 27

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Yet no sooner had we thought we’d reach a lasting arrangement than something crumbled...We had been walking ever so peacefully down a long, blind alley. That was our end….Somethings are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die. But all in all, this was hardly what you could call a tragedy (26)

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Yet no sooner had we thought we’d reach a lasting arrangement than something crumbled...We had been walking ever so peacefully down a long, blind alley. That was our end….Somethings are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die. But all in all, this was hardly what you could call a tragedy (26). PDF 23

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The main character is thinking about a whale's 🤬 and sheeps for a long time. Also, he is obsessed with his girlfriend's ears.

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When the waiter departed, leaving us alone again, I blurted out, “I have to see your ears” (36). PDF 33

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When the waiter departed, leaving us alone again, I blurted out, “I have to see your ears” (36). PDF 33

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chapter 8 "now the strange man": it was eleven o'clock when the man came.

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"C'mon now, there's no honest work anywhere. Just like there's no breathing or honest 🤬." (pg. 58) - Cemal

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"C'mon now, there's no honest work anywhere. Just like there's no breathing or honest 🤬." (pg. 58) - Cemal

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"I first became acquainted with her (or rather, her ears)..."  (page 33)

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"I first became acquainted with her (or rather, her ears)..."  (page 33)

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"Tell me, have you ever thought of killing me?" she asked (page: 10)
Yeliz

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"But you know, that's not the real me" she'd say. "I am my ears, my ears are me."(31)

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"But you know, that's not the real me" she'd say. "I am my ears, my ears are me."(31)

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Aybüke

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... "Honest?"
"Honest. Why would I want to kill you?"
"Oh, I guess you're right," she said. "I thought for a second there that maybe it wouldn't be so bad to get murdered by someone. Like when i am sound asleep."
"I am afraid I am not the killer type"
page 10.

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"So much for metaphors." (pg. 71) - Cemal

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"So much for metaphors." (pg. 71) - Cemal

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"Who knows? What difference? An ear it is. You've got a week to think about ears." (33) -Beril

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"Who knows? What difference? An ear it is. You've got a week to think about ears." (33) -Beril

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"So for one whole week I ear-gazed. I taped the three giant ears to the wall in front of my desk, and all day, while smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee, clipping my nails, I immersed myself in those ears." (Page 33) -Aybegüm

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"I dreamed about a dairy cow. rather nice and small this cow, the type that looked like she'd been through a lot. We passed each other on a big bridge. (...) The cow was carrying an old electronic fan in one hoof, and she asked whether I wouldn't but it from her cheap.

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"But you know, that's not real me,"  she'd say. "I am my ears and my ears are me." Page 31 last paragraph

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"But you know, that's not real me,"  she'd say. "I am my ears and my ears are me." Page 31 last paragraph

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Meaningless implied.

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"...a flock of sheep could only be taken for a flock of sheep, the birch wood only for a birch wood, the white clouds only for white clouds." (pg. 74

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"There are various reasons why an individual might habitually consume large quantities of alcohol, but they all effectively boil down to the same thing." (pg. 53)

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The main character counts 32 sheep but when he counts them again, he notices that another sheep appeared and counts them as 33.(pg. 74)

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"I am going to live to be twenty-five" she said, "then die."
In fact, she actually dies in the age of twenty five.
Yeliz

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"I met her in autumn nine years ago, when I was twenty and she was seventeen." (4) -Beril

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"I met her in autumn nine years ago, when I was twenty and she was seventeen." (4) -Beril

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I shook my head and closed my eyes. All this was beyond me. It seemed that ever since the ear photo came into my life, things had begun to escape me. (pg. 77) ecesu

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"... and Yukio Mishima's picture kept flashing on the lounge TV."  (pg 9, Yukio Mishima is committing suicide) 

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"... and Yukio Mishima's picture kept flashing on the lounge TV."  (pg 9, Yukio Mishima is committing suicide) 

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Say we have a concept. It goes without saying that there will be slight exceptions to that norm. Now, over time these exceptions spread like stains until finally they form a separate concept. To which other expectations crop up. (pg. 81) ecesu

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"I don't have much money" I said. Really, I didnt. "Well then," said the cow, "I might trade it to you for a pair of pliers."

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"I don't have much money" I said. Really, I didnt. "Well then," said the cow, "I might trade it to you for a pair of pliers."

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Absurdity of offering pliers by a diary cow.
Ceycey

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"I'd grown accustomed to those ears."  page: 34
Yeliz

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The girlfriend knows that there will be an important phone call about sheep.(pg.49 )

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"I often have bad dreams. Generally, trauma about vending machines eating my change." (8)

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"I often have bad dreams. Generally, trauma about vending machines eating my change." (8)

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"You are only half-living" page: 47
Yeliz

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"Sixth sense." (pg 70, the girl with ears knows (feels) that something will happen about a sheep and says this to the main character.)

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"Sixth sense." (pg 70, the girl with ears knows (feels) that something will happen about a sheep and says this to the main character.)

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"In other words, sandwiched as we are between "everything" that is behind us and the "zero" beyond us, ours is an ephemeral existence in which there is neither coincidence nor possibility. (71)  - Beril

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"In other words, sandwiched as we are between "everything" that is behind us and the "zero" beyond us, ours is an ephemeral existence in which there is neither coincidence nor possibility. (71)  - Beril

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"In other words, sandwiched as we are between the "everything" that is behind us and the "zero" beyond us, ours is an ephemeral existence in which there is neither coincidence nor possibility." (pg. 71) - Cemal

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"In other words, sandwiched as we are between the "everything" that is behind us and the "zero" beyond us, ours is an ephemeral existence in which there is neither coincidence nor possibility." (pg. 71) - Cemal

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"We can, if we choose, wande aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitious spring breeze." (pg 71)

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"We can, if we choose, wande aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitious spring breeze." (pg 71)

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"I prayed that there wasn't some kind of symbolism to the dream." page: 78
Yeliz

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" 'See what I mean?' she said.
She'd become so beautiful, it defied understanding. Never had I feasted my eyes on such beauty. Beauty of a variety I'd never imagine existed. As expansive as the entire ysinverse, yet as dense as a glacier. Unbashedly excessive, yes at the same time pared down to an essence... Several other customers were now turned our way, staring agape at her. The waiter who came over with more coffee couldn't pour properly." (pg. 45)
Emir

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The talk about margarine. First he expresses that he hates margarine but then he also tells that margarine is healthy, which is actually not. page 57
Yeliz

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"But as Nietzsche said, 'The gods furl their flags at boredoom.' Or something like that." (pg 43)

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"But as Nietzsche said, 'The gods furl their flags at boredoom.' Or something like that." (pg 43)

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Never had any enlarged part of the human body (genitals included, of course) held such a strong attraction for me. They were like some great whirlpool of fate sucking me in

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Never had any enlarged part of the human body (genitals included, of course) held such a strong attraction for me. They were like some great whirlpool of fate sucking me in

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Aybüke