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  • #31
    Re: diary

    SEMIRAMIS SPEAKS
    ***********************************
    Once upon a time I worked with a floozy
    who was fond of quoting lines with double meanings.
    Some samples follow:
    *
    “What goes up must come down.”
    *
    “It only hurts for a little while.”
    *
    “A gentleman is one who places half his weight
    on his elbows.”
    *
    “If you tell me how you got in,
    I will tell you how to get out.”
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    • #32
      Re: diary

      SEMIRAMIS
      ************************************************** **
      There was a time when I wrote nothing but fiction.
      That's when I worked in factories, department stores,
      and insurance companies and came into contact
      with a rich variety of characters.
      It was at the head office of a large insurance company
      that I met and worked with a foul-mouthed young divorcee
      who was fond of delivering lines like
      “Let me sit in your lap and we'll talk about the first thing that comes up.”
      *
      She inspired me to write a novella titled SEMIRAMIS
      which was accepted for publication in an American periodical
      but never saw the light of day
      because the periodical went out of business.
      *
      When I sent it to a literary agent in New York,
      I received a letter that said in effect:
      “The story you have submitted is better suited
      for university periodicals with which we don't deal.”
      *
      Later when I submitted it to ARARAT,
      a literary quarterly published in New York,
      the editor rejected it with a single line that stated
      “We don't publish pornography.”
      *
      All this happened decades ago
      and I lost track of my real-life Semiramis.
      As for the editor, he died five years ago,
      may the Good lord have mercy on his soul.
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      • #33
        Re: diary

        ON IDENTITY
        *******************************
        Just because I was born in Greece,
        that doesn’t make me a Greek.
        Just because I was educated in Italy…
        Just because I live in Canada…
        Who the hell am I?
        My tentative answer:
        an Armenian whose ambition in life
        is to be born again as a human being.

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        • #34
          Re: diary

          There are many things in life about which no one
          tells you anything. Case in point: no one ever
          bothered to tell me the secret of living a
          comfortable life is to be a flatterer, not a
          critic, and that there is more money in kissing
          ass than in kicking it.

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          • #35
            Re: diary

            When a reader tells me he hates what I write, I make an effort to be more hateful. I don't write to entertain, amuse, and flatter.

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            • #36
              Re: diary

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              • #37
                Re: diary

                Monday, August 29, 2016
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                NOTES / COMMENTS
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                Sooner or later all empires bite the dust;
                and we are the dust.
                *
                An Armenians’ greatest problem
                is another Armenian.
                *
                We are a nation of narcissists
                who can’t stand one another.
                *
                You can’t save a nation
                that has been dying the death of a thousand
                self-administered cuts.
                #

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                • #38
                  Re: diary

                  Very early this morning I opened my eyes with the words: "Many have tried before me and failed. When they were not silenced, they gave up in despair. Why go on?"
                  And here I am again, "unwashed, unshaved, unshat" (Auden), "buggering on" (Churchill).

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                  • #39
                    Re: diary

                    I love this sentence by Saint-Simon: "My self-esteem has always increased in direct proportion to the damage I was doing to my reputation."
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                    • #40
                      Re: diary

                      There are so many books on how to succeed that I can see a time when being a failure will be more interesting, unusual, and fashionable.

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