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    FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
    ************************************
    To be an Armenian writer in Canada today
    is like being a nobody in a no-man’s land.
    *
    “Why don’t you quit?”
    “Because that’s what’s expected of me!”
    *
    As Armenians we enjoy three freedoms:
    the freedom to emigrate,
    to assimilate, and
    to say “Yes, sir!”
    *
    In the eyes of the 1%,
    the 99% become a nuisance
    when they refuse to recycle their propaganda line.
    *
    A question first asked
    by a smart (self-assessed) xxxxxxx:
    “What’s your point?”
    #

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    ON OUR DIVIDERS
    **********************************
    We are ruled by dividers
    who see solidarity as a threat to their survival.
    *
    With us, survival comes first
    even when it leads to decline, disintegration
    and death.
    *
    We are all failures, with one difference:
    some of us get paid for their work.
    *
    To our bosses and bishops,
    a forked tongue is their only means of survival.
    *
    When they speak of unity, they lie.
    *
    They are believed only by children
    and the brainwashed.
    #

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    • #3
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      WE DON’T NEED CRITICS…
      *************************************
      Our literature from
      Khorenatsi’s LAMENTATION
      to Charents’s final “Message”
      is about solutions.
      *
      When we say
      “We don’t need critics,
      we need solutions!”
      what we really mean is
      “We know nothing about our literature
      and care even less.”
      *
      What is emigration if not genocide
      by other means?
      #

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      • #4
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        FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
        ****************************************
        Mirabeau on Talleyrand:
        "He would sell his soul for money,
        and he would be right,
        for he would be exchanging xxxx for gold."
        *
        Our history in four words:
        Bad neighborhood, worse leadership.
        *
        Misfortunes come in pairs.
        *
        They have a Nobel Prize winner
        and we don't.
        Moral: Only people
        with an inferiority complex brag.
        #

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        • #5
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          ON OUR PROBLEMS
          ************************************
          Our problems are insoluble
          because our 1% are insane.
          *
          They are insane because
          their favorite motto is:
          The best way to save the nation
          is by dividing it.
          *
          We owe all wars and massacres
          to the 1%.
          *
          We did not behead any one of our kings:
          therein lies the source of our misfortunes.
          *
          Life after death and life before birth:
          they share he same address.
          *
          There is book wise and
          there is street smart.
          Street smart is better.
          #

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          • #6
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            IF…
            ****************
            If I repeat myself
            it may be because I have so few readers that
            (a) the overwhelming majority of mankind
            has not read a single line I have written and
            (b) everything I write may well deserve to be read
            by a minimum of one reader
            and a maximum of two –
            if you will forgive my megalomania.
            *
            As far as I know
            neither Homer nor Dostoevsky ever used
            the expression “creative writing.”
            If there is a buck to be made,
            the Yanks will be there first.
            *
            If there are no contemporary successful
            Armenian writers it may be because
            no one can be creative in a vacuum.
            #
            Francoise Sagan in her book of CONVERSATIONS:
            “I once told Von Karajan that my favorite piece of Bruckner
            was ‘The Trout Quintet.’”
            #

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