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  • #31
    Re: Writers

    ENEMY ACTION************************During the Clinton administration and in a speech delivered in the White House to an Armenian delegation there was a paragraph that said: "In the words of the great Armenian poet Puzant Granian…"-- there followed a passage from MY LAND, MY PEOPLE which I had co-translated with the author in 1977. But whereas the Tashnag papers printed the President’s speech in its entirety, the Ramgavar papers deleted any reference to Granian (who happenms to be a Tashnag). *On another occasion, when I published an interview with Puzant Granian, both Granian and I were torn to shreds by an Ramgavar intellectual (if you will forgive the oxymoron). *When Granian replied with a letter to the editor, his reply was drastically edited and abridged by the "chezok" (non-partisan editor whose salary was paid by the AGBU(sometimes also referred to as KGBU)*In 1980 I was commissioned by AGBUto edit an anthology titled ARMENIA OBSERVED, in which I included a short chapter from Granian’s MY LAND, MY PEOPLE. This chapter was deleted without notice. *There is a military maxim that says: "If something goes wrong once, it is an accident; if twice, it is a coincidence; if three times, it is enemy action." *It is to be noted that both Granian’s book and my interview were devoid of any ideological content. #

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    • #32
      Re: Writers

      WRITERS
      ************************
      Dostoevsky and Russia,
      Peguy and France,
      Thomas Mann and Germany,
      Zarian and Armenia:
      when a writer commits the unspeakable blunder
      of assuming that his country is superior to all others,
      history steps in to prove him spectacularly
      wrong, stupid, and arrogant.
      *
      Dostoevsky and Stalin,
      Peguy and Laval / Petain,
      Mann and Hitler,
      Zarian and our own faceless Soviet puppets….
      #

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      • #33
        Re: Writers

        MEMOIRS:
        FRAGMENT I
        ************************************
        After reading about Zarian and the abuse
        he suffered in both the Homeland and Diaspora,
        I knew I didn’t have a chance,
        my fate was sealed,
        my goose cooked,
        and in modern parlance,
        I was f***ed.
        #

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        • #34
          Re: Writers

          when I speak of victims and victimizers
          I have in mind not just Armenians and Turks,
          but also Armenians and Armenians.

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          • #35
            Re: Writers

            ON WRITERS
            **********************************
            There are so many of them that
            they should be grateful to the 1%
            for allowing some of them to survive.
            *
            You want to expose the Turk in an Armenian?
            Disagree with him.
            The more insignificant the disagreement
            the better.
            *
            When a reader shoots to kill
            he ceases to be a reader
            and becomes an executioner.
            *
            You either write what the 1%
            want you to write or you are
            a dead man walking.
            *
            Do we really need the foreign divider
            in order to divide ourselves?
            *
            There is as much ignorance in love
            as there is in hatred.
            #

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            • #36
              Re: Writers

              I become aware of my shortcomings by others.
              The “other” is a useful tool of discovery –
              especially when he is a hostile witness.
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              • #37
                Re: Writers

                We lament the fate of writers
                who were silenced by the likes of Talaat and Stalin;
                but we don’t even bother counting
                those we have silenced on our own.
                *

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                • #38
                  Re: Writers

                  I write to share my outrage with my readers.
                  Some day I hope to write to share a good laugh with them.
                  But that day may never come.

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                  • #39
                    Re: Writers

                    Gide is right: writing gets progressively more difficult.
                    Mann is also right when he says writing is difficult
                    especially for a writer.

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                    • #40
                      Re: Writers

                      Making money: I can’t imagine anything more degrading.
                      The only reason I made money was to quit making money.

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