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Eğlenmezlerse eğlenemem

Eğlendirirsem, eğleniriz

Eğlendirmek eğlencesiz

Eğlenemediklerinden eğlenebilirim

Eğlenemediklerinden eğlenmemeliyim

Eğlenemiyorvâriliğimindeki eğlenemediklerinin

Eğlencesi

Eğlenmesine eğlenelim,

Eğlenmek ki eğlencesizdir

Eğlenememeleriyle eğlenemezsin

Eğlenebilir misin,

eğlendirilmeyen eğlenemezken

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They are not having fun.

I can’t have fun if they don’t.

If I get them to have fun, then I can have fun with them.

Getting them to have fun, is not fun. It is hard work.

I might get fun out of finding out why they’re not.

I’m not supposed to get fun out of working out why

they’re not.

But there is even some fun in pretending to them I’m not

having fun finding out why they ’re not.

A little girl comes along and says: let’s have fun.

But having fun is a waste of time, because it doesn’t

help to figure out why they’re not having fun.

How dare you have fun when Christ died on the Cross

for you! Was He having fun?

R.D. Laing

Çeviri: Oğulcan Dölekçekiç