what is literature?

[arabaliozian]

WHAT IS LITERATURE?
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To say what must be said.
The rest is either escape or propaganda.
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ON ORIGINALITY
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Any idea that wasn’t conceived
and clearly defined 2500 years ago by Greeks,
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MARX& JESUS
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“I am not a Marxist,” said Marx.
Had he lived long enough,
Jesus too would have said
“I am not a Christian.”
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ON WAR
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Where there is war
there will also be a few idiots
and many dupes.
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MEMO
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No need to remind me
I don’t qualify as an Armenian writer.
I don’t plan to apply for membership
in the club.
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ON SURIVIVAL
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Our survival is an illusion.
Our history is a chronology of death
by a thousand self-inflicted cuts.
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[lampron]

Re: what is literature?

WHAT IS LITERATURE?
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Our survival is an illusion.
Our history is a chronology of death
by a thousand self-inflicted cuts.
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Why are there so many Armenian political and religious leaders who brag about our survival?

[arabaliozian]

Re: what is literature?

WHAT IF?
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What if I am right?
I’m not saying I am right.
Just asking what if?
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Because if I am right
we have to deal with
more than one set of perpetrators.
Once more Turks are ahead of us there.
Under Kemal they arrested, tried and hanged
some of the criminals.
What have we done except to lament
and put all the blame on others?
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I am not implying we should have hanged
some of our bunglers.
No, that would be too much to ask.
What is in the realm of possibilities, however,
is to expose those who pretend to be never wrong
but who in fact have done nothing right
and continue to parade as leaders of men.
*
The least, the very least we can do is
to expose our own cover-up artists
whose number one concern is not the truth
and the welfare of the people
but their own powers, privileges and
license to divide, mislead and carry on
with the “white” massacre
(assimilation in the Diaspora
and exodus from the Homeland).
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