On 10 January I woke up to read the sad news of Zygmunt Bauman's death. My mind flashed back to the day I met him in Istanbul in 2010. This was my first meeting with Bauman. It was also the last.
We were invited to a conference, "Philosophers Bridge the Bosphorus". I was lucky enough to spend some hours conversing with him. From the very first moment we clicked, perhaps because we were also both smokers.
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