西方观察者抨击这座城市的时候,我往往发现,他们的冷酷直言给我的乐趣,更甚于洛蒂纡尊降贵地不断吹捧伊斯坦布尔的美丽、古怪及其奇妙的独特之处。在某种程度上,我们都很担心外国人和陌生人怎么看我们。但焦虑若带给我们痛苦,模糊了我们与现实的关系,变得比现实本身更重要,那可就麻烦了。我的城市在西方人眼中是什么样子,我关心西方人如何看待我们的城市(大部分的伊斯坦布尔人也是如此),这很令人烦恼,就像一只眼睛始终盯着西方的 When Western observers attacked the city, I often found out that their ruthlessness and bluntness gave me more pleasure than Lotti, who dearly escalated to praise Istanbul’s beauty, quirkyness and its marvelous uniqueness. To a certain extent, we are all very worried about how foreigners and strangers see us. But if anxiety brings us pain, obscures our relationship with reality and becomes more important than reality itself, then it may be troublesome. What my city looks like in the eyes of the West, and I’m concerned about how Westerners see our city (and so are most of Istanbul) is very annoying, just as one eye is always on the west