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    ON ZARIAN
    *************************
    Hagop Oshagan: “He deals in surfaces, like a camera…
    That which is invisible remains beyond his reach.”
    *
    An academic in Yerevan: “Nobody liked him.”
    *
    A next-door neighbor of his from Los Angeles:
    “I avoided him. I was told he was a madman.”
    *
    A young journalist: “I once carried a heavy suitcase for him
    up a mountain in Cyprus -- nearly dislocated a shoulder…
    and he didn’t even thank me.”
    *
    A Tashnak Editor: “If we treat him right
    he may come to our side.” (He didn’t.)
    *
    A self-assessed great writer of the Diaspora:
    “An incurable name-dropper…Picasso told me this,
    Unamuno told me that…me, me, me!”
    *
    Puzant Granian: “He was a bit of a fanfarone.”
    *
    Vahe Oshagan: “His so-called brilliance
    never rises above that of a student.”
    *
    There is a frequently quoted Armenian saying:
    “Kna merir yegour sirem.” (Freely paraphrased:
    “Drop dead and I’ll love you.” This rule too, I guess,
    has its share of exceptions.
    *
    Another possible explanation:
    Writers are not equipped to understand other writers.
    Their primary concern is to eliminate the competition.
    #

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    maybe non-Armenians who have familiarity with Armenian literature (probably not many of them) will be more objective in their observations

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      One of my teachers at Melkonian Institute, himself a student of Oshagan at the Institute, describing him as a great thinker.

      Apparently he rarely edited or second read his works. It appears his forte was the thinking and the ideas man.

      As for his critics, anybody who has studied Armenian literature knows or has heard about Hagop Oshagan.
      Who knows about his critics.

      Sadly Armenian literature is neglected nowadays and rarely has a place in our cultural life, along with our famous writers.

      As for the critics who had a parasitic existence alongside the famous have also disappeared into oblivion.

      .
      Politics is not about the pursuit of morality nor what's right or wrong
      Its about self interest at personal and national level often at odds with the above.
      Great politicians pursue the National interest and small politicians personal interests

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        If I don’t speak of the afterlife
        it’s because I leave that particular branch of ignorance
        to those who survive by deceiving themselves.
        *

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        • #5
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          SOURCES OF OUR DECLINE
          & DEGENERATION
          *****************************************
          Fornicating bishops sermonizing on chastity,
          blind men parading as men of vision,
          perennial losers speechifying on future victories...
          *
          After depopulating the land,
          they promote tourism
          on the grounds that tourists
          are a source of income.
          By contrast, the poor and the unemployed
          are a drain on the economy.
          *
          I remember the words of an elder statesman:
          “Some of the most important players in our communities
          are not Armenian but Turks who speak Armenian fluently.”
          #

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