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  • #11
    Re: Writers

    A STORY WITH A HAPPY ENDING / When asked to identify his favorite role model, one of our intellectuals (let’s call him Comrade Panchoonie) named one of our benefactors (let’s call him Jack S. Avanakian) and was amply rewarded.#

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    • #12
      Re: Writers

      QUOTATIONS FROM
      SHAHAN SHAHNOUR'S
      CORRESPONDENCE, VOLUME II.
      Collected, edited, and annotated by Krikor
      Keusseyan.
      **************************************************
      On Vazken Shoushanian:
      "I have read only one book by him, an epistolary
      novel, which is a definite failure because it
      happens to be a youthful work. Has he written
      anything better? I asked this question to an
      associate of his, Nartuni, who answered: "He is a
      worthless man. He will write nothing of any
      value."
      I don't accept this verdict at face value because
      these two Tashnaks can't stand each other."
      *
      On Antranik Zaroukian:
      "When he was young, he was a fanatic Tashnak. And
      more. He confused swearing with reasoning. He is
      wrong if he thinks I hold a grudge against him.
      No, never! Even if he had remained an obstinate
      member of the Party I could not have harbored vengeful
      thoughts in his direction, only pity and scorn."
      *
      About the shenanigans of the Jerusalem Monastery:


      "Among other things, Nartuni told me all about the
      wheeling-and-dealing in Jerusalem and the
      scandalous conduct of our Holy Fathers there -
      their alcoholism, contrabandism, womanizing,
      gambling, thievery…He knows them well having
      spent some time in their company. He tells me
      these high-ranking ecclesiastics are themselves
      former orphans [survivors of the massacres]
      gathered from the desert. Alas!"
      *
      On our press:
      "In order for our press to play a useful role in
      our social and political life, there must be such
      things as public opinion and collective memory,
      in whose absence blunders will be forgotten and
      incompetent leaders glorified."
      *
      On the literary scene in the Diaspora:
      "Our literary market place is now in the hands of
      senior citizens - Vratsian, Chobanian, Oshagan -
      individuals who don't have to work for a living
      and they have all the time in the world to write
      and write…Let them write so long as they don't
      give us a headache with their endless arguments
      and senile problems."
      *
      In my review of this book I neglected to
      mention that half of it consists of endnotes,
      that can be read as a brief introduction to
      20th-century Armenian history and culture. In
      addition to being a dedicated fan of Shahnour,
      Krikor Keusseyan is a meticulous scholar whose
      comments are as informative as Shahnour's
      observations and insights.
      #

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      • #13
        Re: Writers

        If at times I am merciless in my criticism, it’s because life has been even more merciless to us collectively. Compared to how tough life has been, I don’t even qualify as a marshmallow.
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        • #14
          Re: Writers

          Gerald Durrell’s memoir MY FAMILY
          AND OTHER ANIMALS (1956) contains
          an unforgettable and hilarious portrait of
          Gostan Zarian.
          Gerald Durrell: not to be confused
          with his better-known brother Lawrence
          (THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET)
          who also wrote extensively about Zarian.
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          • #15
            Re: Writers

            STATUS QUO
            *********************************
            For 600 years our
            status quo remained the same.
            They used our daughters as concubines
            and our sons as Janissaries
            and we said “yes, sir!”
            *
            And today we say “yes, sir!”
            to those among us
            who expect us to believe
            if they speak in the name of God and capital
            – make it Capital and god –
            they must know something we don’t.
            *
            Words are not only cheap but worthless.
            Why do I write?
            I don’t. I deal in empty verbiage.
            In what way am I different from Zohrab
            who wrote about golden hearted hookers
            and adultery on the eve of the Genocide?
            *
            To deal in empty verbiage
            is not to write and to say “Yes sir!”
            is not to speak.
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                • #18
                  Re: Writers

                  What our leaders want from our writers is not their ideas but their cojones surgically removed and presented to them on a platter; and the astonishing part is that most writers don't mind singing soprano.
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                  • #19
                    Re: Writers

                    NOTES / COMMENTS
                    ****************************************
                    There is a Turks in all of us
                    to the same degree that
                    there is an Armenian in all of them.
                    *
                    Where there is an abundance
                    of sermonizers and speechifiers
                    there will also be an abundance
                    of liars and dupes.
                    *
                    I repeat myself?
                    If they pretend I don’t exist,
                    why should I note reassert my existence?
                    *
                    The difference between our bishops and me
                    is that they recycle one book
                    and I recycle more than one.
                    *
                    Success in politics:
                    repeat yourself at the top of your lungs.
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                    • #20
                      Re: Writers

                      My life has been an uninterrupted succession
                      of blunders beginning with the one that said,
                      unlike other Armenian writers –
                      from Abovian (who committed suicide)
                      to Zarian (who died with the unshakeable conviction
                      that he had been murdered –
                      I will have better luck with my readers.

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