60. Evenings on the Bosphorus, at the Huzur Restaurant

"In the summer of 1977 we cajoled Tarık Bey into joining us as well, and as he warmed to the idea, the entire team of television-watching Keskins would head out to eat on the Bosphorus, with Çetin at the wheel.
Much as this happiness derived simply from being out of the house, and the twin joys (extolled by many an Ottoman court poet) of drinking wine and sitting beside one’s beloved, there was also the diversion of the street crowds.
On our way back in the car we were in the habit of singing all together, and it was always Tarık Bey who got us started.
Isn’t the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?" (The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk)