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  • #1

    Zohrab

    ON ZOHRAB
    **************************
    By 1915 we had been so thoroughly ottomanized
    that we found the concept of genocide unthinkable.
    We ignored countless warnings
    by foreign as well as domestic observers.
    When Zohrab predicted the coming catastrophe,
    he was dismissed with the words;
    “Zohrab effendi is exaggerating.”
    *
    It is to be noted that Zohrab wasn’t just a writer.
    a dealer in abstractions, a scribbler
    or mental masturbator --
    as most Armenians prefer to think of their
    “medavoragans” (intellectuals) and
    “vodanavorjis” (versifiers).
    He was an insider,
    a member of the Ottoman 1%,
    a close friend of Talaat and
    an internationally respected lawyer..
    *
    I have been translating and writing
    for forty years now
    and all I have accomplished is
    making more enemies who,
    judging by their comments,
    regret the fact that I am lucky
    not to have someone like Talaat and Stalin
    to deal with.
    *
    Talaat and Stalin: hombres with cojones
    who knew how to deal with scum like me.
    *
    Why do I continue to write?
    The only conceivable answer:
    death wish.
    #
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  • #2
    Re: Zohrab

    FALLACIES
    ***************************
    We are lovers of freedom?
    Nonsense!
    When was the last time we were free?
    The answer to that question
    may have a better chance to be found
    not in historiography but in archeology.
    *
    We have trouble reaching a consensus?
    A big lie!
    For 600 years we agreed to be subservient
    to Turks.
    *
    We are smart?
    Who has ever heard of a slave
    smarter than his master?
    #

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    • #3
      Re: Zohrab

      IF…
      ******************
      If Abovian came back to life today
      he would commit suicide all over again.
      *
      KANT
      ***************
      We owe our survival not to our character as a nation
      but to Kant power—and I don’t mean Immanuel.
      *
      Q/A
      ****************
      Q. Why do you write?
      A: For the pleasure of introducing a xxxx
      to himself.
      #

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      • #4
        Re: Zohrab

        INTELLECTUALS AND ACADEMICS
        ************************************************** ****
        An intellectual is someone who dedicates his life to ideas.
        An academic is someone who dedicates his life to his career.
        Once upon a time we had intellectuals but no academics.
        Today we have no intellectuals
        but over a thousand academics
        in America alone.
        Which may explain why in literature
        even the Turks are ahead of us.
        #

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        • #5
          Re: Zohrab

          NOTES / COMMENTS
          **********************************
          About Turks, the question is:
          “Were we blind?”
          *
          Empires and civilizations are created by barbarians
          who after committing genocide, say,
          “What genocide?”
          *
          Where there is power, there will be a lie:
          the greater the power, the bigger the lie.”
          *
          Politicians: Because all nations have them,
          they are not called criminals but legislators.
          *
          The ultimate aim of all organized belief systems
          is to justify indiscriminate slaughter.
          *
          If you kill in the name of god,
          it’s not murder.
          #

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          • #6
            Re: Zohrab

            ON DENIALISM
            & RELATED ATROCITIES
            **********************************************
            Denialism is their only option.
            The alternative is financial ruin,
            territorial chaos and
            declaration of moral and political bankruptcy.
            *
            Whoever said we don’t believe in free speech
            was lying. Our faith in free speech is such that
            we even allow fornicators to sermonize on chastity.
            *
            You want to understand your fellow Armenians?
            Think the worst and you will be moving
            in the right direction.
            *
            Am I saying anything your don’t already know?
            #

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