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[arabaliozian]

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TWO QUESTIONS
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As an Armenian,
do I qualify as a member of the human race?
Can I identify myself as a writer if I am alive?
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Because the Turks failed to finish the job,
we have taken it upon ourselves to do so.
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The secretary of an archbishop once brought a volume
of his verse to translate. I told her
I did not consider myself equal to the task.
And they dare to tell me
I am not diplomatic enough in my writings.
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And speaking of diplomacy:
Frederick the Great on Shakespeare:
“Ridiculous farces which merit only
to be performed in front of savages in Canada.”
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To be noted: as a German monarch
Frederick the Great preferred to speak and write in French.
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To paraphrase Galbraith:
“The greater the wealth, the thicker the xxxx.”
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Don’t talk to me about the beauty of the Armenian language.
Try to explain instead why Armenians in Greece
prefer to speak in Greek, in Italy in Italian,
in America in English, in Russia in Russian,
and in France in French.
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[arabaliozian]

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ON DISSENT
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When accused of harboring anti-Armenian sentiments,
I say I earned the right to echo the sentiments
of many predecessors, among them
Raffi, Baronian, Odian, Zarian and Massikian
some of whom I have translated into English.
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ON WOMEN (III)
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Another reason why I consider our women
superior to men is that unlike men
they are not actively engaged in digging
our collective grave.
They leave that particular endeavor
to our bosses, bishops, and benefactors.
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ON OUR GOLDEN AGE
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If the 5th Century is our Golden Age,
what possessed Khorenatsi to write
his celebrated LAMENTATION?
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ARMENIANS IN AMERICA
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If Armenians have prospered in America
it’s because like Americans, when they say
“In god we trust,” they mean of course “In Gold…”
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[lampron]

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TWO QUESTIONS
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Because the Turks failed to finish the job,
we have taken it upon ourselves to do so.
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We are still waiting for the many think-tanks in Armenia, starting with Raffi Hovannisian's think tank to guide the nation on how this can be avoided!
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Don’t talk to me about the beauty of the Armenian language.
Try to explain instead why Armenians in Greece
prefer to speak in Greek, in Italy in Italian,
in America in English, in Russia in Russian,
and in France in French.
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You forgot Armenians in Armenia, fluent speakers of Armenian
95% of them want to be any one of the above mentioned nationalities!

[arabaliozian]

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BOSSES, BISHOPS, BENEFACTORS
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Who benefits from our divisions?
Surely, not the people.
If not the people, who?
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Two liars lie with greater confidence than one,
and it goes without saying, three is better than two.
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It can truly be said of us:
We have come face to face with evil
but we have not learned wisdom.
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Our writers have been of no use to us
because, in the words of Edward Gibbon:
“Persuasion is the resource of the feeble;
and the feeble can seldom persuade.”
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MEMO TO OUR ACADEMICS
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No matter how many degrees you earn,
you will end up taking orders
from a moral moron.
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