TE16 Turkish Delight

Zeynep Çolakğlu “In visual arts, Rubens, Arnold Böcklin and Caravaggio painted Medusa, and Benvenuto Cellini is among the artists who sculpted Perseus and Medusa’s heads. There are ancient manuscripts regarding Medusa too. The author is unknown and the language is like a ritual prayer that I haven’t been able to make out. In another resource I’ve read, it says that during the paganism period in Scandinavia there was a community that worshiped Medusa.” Due tomydeeppassion towards the book, my social lifewhichwas not very colorful to begin with had faded altogether. Worse, this situation was starting to affect my personal life. My boyfriend at the time was complaining for some time that I wasn’t acting like myself. He didn’t even want to make love to me anymore. He was talking about a wild fire that sprung up in my pupils that scared him. My posture had changed. It was as if I was coarser and taller. My hair was always scruffy. Whatever I did, I couldn’t smoothen them. At last, I gave up too. I don’t even remember the last time I spruced myself up. No matter how often I clipped my nails, they grew up rather quickly and were very sharp. Couple of times, I accidentally hurt my boyfriend because of this. Once, we had an unfortunate incident because of my nails; his soft, white skin was grazed a little and that magnificent crimson color started to rush out. He got very upset when I just watched him. In another incident,myfitof rage,which Iwashavingmoreregularlyrecently, erupted more intensely. Deciding that nature would do me good, the day we planned to have a quiet alone time in the forest, after having a violent fit of rage, I couldn’t control myself and bit his ear and then rolled down from the hill. What a madness! Was I turning into a violent animal step by step? Eventually, when I calmed down, he told me that among my screeching screams he 252