The Three-arched Bridge

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The most startling event is when a "volunteer" is immured inside the bridge in order to make a "sacrifice" to the river. The man's face is captured in the plaster that surrounds him, as unforgettable as it is horrifying. Though clearly a punishment for the crime of sabotage against the bridge, as Gjon recounts this event, it is less an act of vengeance than it is a true sacrifice. It becomes a symbol for the Balkans as a whole against the Ottoman threat. But more than that, it becomes a symbol for the ignorance of and squabbling among tiny Balkan principalities that allowed the Ottoman occupation to happen.

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