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    THIS & THAT
    *******************************
    Gore Vidal on Truman Capote:
    “We had something in common.
    Our mothers were drunks.”
    *
    On Venice: “For the Venetians,
    ‘the evil empire’ was Turkey.”
    *
    Leonard Bernstein on Brahms:
    “The least appreciated
    of the major composers.”
    *
    Jay Parini on Vidal: “Gore just adds a vowel
    to English words and thinks it’s Italian.”
    *
    I have been quoting from Jay Perini’s
    A LIFE OF GORE VIDAL.
    #

  • #2
    Re: this/that

    NOTES / COMMENTS
    *********************************
    There are as many honest multimillionaires
    as there are vegetarian vultures.
    *
    When I was brainwashed
    it never even occurred to me to suspect
    a brain could be washed.
    *
    About those I criticize:
    I have every reason to suspect
    in their place I would have done the same thing.

    *
    The well of wisdom is deep
    but the desires to drink from it non-existent.
    *
    Knowledge has played an important role
    in the history of mankind;
    a role rivaled only by ignorance.
    *
    Speaking about our Soviet phase:
    there are two things we can brag about:
    both Stalin and Beria Georgian.
    #

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    • #3
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      MORE ON THE 1%
      ***********************************
      “Tiberius, grim, paranoid, with a taste
      for having his testicles licked…
      Nero, kicking his pregnant wife to death.”
      For more details see two recent works
      on the Roman Empire:
      SPQR: A HISTORY OF ANCIENT ROME
      by Mary Beard, and
      DYNASTY: THE RISE AND FALL
      OF THE HOUSE OF CAESAR
      by Tom Holland.

      ON DENIALISM
      ******************************
      A political system that legitimizes
      the indiscriminate massacre of defenseless civilians
      will legitimize lies.
      *
      ON COLLECTIVE IQ
      **********************************
      What matters is not how smart you are
      but how useful you can be.
      Turks are useful to America;
      Armenians are useless even to themselves.
      To our political parties, an Armenian pays his dues
      is useful; an Armenian who questions
      the honesty and competence of the leadership
      is not just useless but also dangerous
      and should be labeled a madman
      (which is what happened to Zarian in America).
      *
      ON NABOKOV
      ***************************
      Nina Berberova: “A great Russian writer
      like a Phoenix was born from the fire and ashes
      of revolution and exile.”
      #

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      • #4
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        GUILTY AS CHARGED
        ************************************
        If you don’t recognize yourself in what I write
        it may be because I am a failure as a writer.
        Either that or our 1% know how to cover
        their collective ass.
        *
        LOYALTY
        *********************
        According to Stalin’s daughter,
        deep down her daddy was a good man;
        it was all Beria’s fault – Beria, “a monster,” ‘utterly degenerate,” “the embodiment of Oriental perfidy,
        flattery and hypocrisy, “a born spy and provocateur”
        and even more revealing:
        “in the service of Armenian nationalists.”
        For more details, see
        20 LETTERS TO A FRIEND”
        by Svetlana Alliluyeva.
        *
        BENEFACTORS
        ****************************
        Like all men who have accumulated
        vast amounts of wealth
        by exploiting the poor,
        they prefer to be identified
        not as bloodsuckers
        but as admirable specimens of humanity.
        #

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        • #5
          Re: this/that

          NOTES / COMMENTS
          ****************************
          Fanatics have fragile egos.
          *
          Some of my gentle readers feel
          so threatened by what I write that
          I am beginning to suspect
          there must be some truth in the old
          absurd saying
          “The pen is mightier than the sword.”
          *
          My ideas are common currency
          in our literature from Khorenatsi
          to Raffi, Baronian, Odian, Massikian,
          and Zarian among many others.
          Only readers who know nothing
          and care even less about our literature
          pretend to be outraged.
          *
          Our academics are compensated
          for keeping their mouths shut.
          *
          As for our writers:
          the first question that comes to mind is:
          Do they exist?
          *

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