paradoxes

[arabaliozian]

Re: paradoxes

Life has a way of searching out and locating your weaknesses in order to cause maximum damage.

[arabaliozian]

Re: paradoxes

I understand illusions.
I have quite a few of them myself,
as a matter of fact.
I believe reason matters.
I believe common sense is transferable.
I believe explanations work.
I think I may be able to make a difference.
I like to hope where far better men than myself failed,
I may succeed.
Call it optimism run riot.
Call it hubris.
Whatever it is, it allows me to go on.
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[londontsi]

Re: paradoxes

i studied Armenian under Masrob Janashian, who was a student or Arsen Ghazikian (both Mekhitarist monks in Venice). Ghazikian, who also taught Armenian to Zarian, was the acknowledged authority on West-Armenian. he loved the language so much that in his translation of THE ILIAD (he was a prolific translator -- see the entry on him in the SOVIET-ARMENIAN ENCYLOPAEDIA) that in his effort to immortalize every single word in it, he even used the "kounel" (to f*ck). Where Homer has Paris saying to Helen, "when i slept with you," (in the original Greek)Ghazikian translates: "Yerp yes kezi kounetsi!"

How much has the world changed since then.

Now its the woman who tell the man "yes kezi K........tsi" or "bidi k....em."

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[arabaliozian]

Re: paradoxes

i studied Armenian under Masrob Janashian, who was a student or Arsen Ghazikian (both Mekhitarist monks in Venice). Ghazikian, who also taught Armenian to Zarian, was the acknowledged authority on West-Armenian. he loved the language so much that in his translation of THE ILIAD (he was a prolific translator -- see the entry on him in the SOVIET-ARMENIAN ENCYLOPAEDIA) that in his effort to immortalize every single word in it, he even used the "kounel" (to f*ck). Where Homer has Paris saying to Helen, "when i slept with you," (in the original Greek)Ghazikian translates: "Yerp yes kezi kounetsi!"

[arabaliozian]

Re: paradoxes

Tuesday, October 04, 2016
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AS I SEE IT
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Who pays taxes in America?
Only Americans who can’t afford
competent accountants, financial advisers,
and loophole experts.
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Only a god with a diabolical imagination
could have created man.
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My 11th commandment:
Thou shalt not make yourself marketable.
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Sooner or later all empires bite the dust.
It’s different with nations
of Oriental carpet dealers.
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My critics demand love from me
because deep inside somewhere
they knew they are hateful.
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[arabaliozian]

Re: paradoxes

BOOK REVIEW
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1001 DAYS THAT SHAPED THE WORLD.
Edited by Peter Furtado.
960 pages. New York, 2008.
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Three randomly selected days discussed in this wrist-wrenching and lavishly illustrated tome are:
“May 1, 1274 – Beatrice Portinari inspires Dante's greatest work.”
“June 4, 1913 – Suffragette xxxxxled to Death.”
“January 2, 1973 – Abortion Legalized.”
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Armenians are not mentioned.
Turks and Kurds, yes.
Armenians. no.
So much for first nation this and first nation that. Which may suggest that our propaganda is designed to deceive us and no one else.
But that's the way it is with all propaganda regardless of race, color, and creed.
No one but Jews believe they are the Chosen People.
No one but some Aryans believed they belonged to a Superior Race.
And until very recently, no one but Southern bigots believed in the superiority of “Anglo-Saxon democracy” and in the inferiority of Jews, Blacks, and Catholics – that is to say, the rest of the mankind.
Charity, it is said, begins at home.
So does deception, alas!
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[arabaliozian]

Re: paradoxes

Strange country, stranger people! They utter a
cliché or a platitude and call it a philosophy.
In a land devoid of philosophers, everyone is a
philosopher.

[arabaliozian]

Re: paradoxes

THE STERILITY OF LITERATURE
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After Shaw wrote, "One fashionably dressed woman may cost the life of ten babies," did the number of fashionably dressed women go down?

[arabaliozian]

Re: paradoxes

As an Armenian I feel like the celebrated Arab poet who had 1000 friends & one enemy, but his friends were nowhere & his enemy everywhere.

[arabaliozian]

Re: paradoxes

Some readers demand that I solve problems whose very existence they refuse to acknowledge.