Thursday, May 23, 2013 ************************************** CHEKHOV ********************* In one of his short stories Chekhov writes (I quote/paraphrase from memory): “You are saying man is the architect of his own happiness and I am saying if you had a toothache and a shrew as a mother-in-law you would sing a different tune.” * DANTE AND SHAKESPEARE ***************************************** There is a type of writer whose every statement needs a footnote whose every footnote needs a commentary, and whose every commentary needs an explanation. And then there is a type of writer whose statements mean what they say preferably in monosyllables, like “To be or not to be.” * WHAT IS LITERATURE ******************************** The function of a writer, I was brought up to believe, is to make the reader feel good and proud of his identity. I know now that a writer is neither a comedian nor an entertainer. * KURDISTAN ***************************** The projected map of a future Kurdistan looks surprisingly like Armenia only twice as big. * OPTIONS ********************* Between a past we cannot change and a present we can change, we have allowed our Turcocentric ghazetajis and genocide academics to turn us into pillars of salt. # THE WRONG MAN ****************************** If I can explain one little thing that you didn’t understand before, I have done my part. If you read me with the hope to be enlightened, you’ve got the wrong man for the job. The world, the people in it, God above and the Devil below are a mystery to me too. * And speaking of people: A hundred years ago they were in the business of slaughtering innocent civilians and creating refugees by the million. They are now busy welcoming them from Syria. Times change, people change, conditions change and charity is thrust on some as greatness is on others. # THE GOOD AND THE BAD ************************************ Good Turks and Armenians exist but they are outnumbered by the brainwashed. * All wars and massacres begin in the classrooms of the nation. * They teach intolerance, hatred, and murder and call it education and patriotism. And because I say these things I am thought of as an enemy. #