Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Nov. 10, 2012)
Reformation I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, […]
Reformation I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, […]
Likewise It is a great happiness to be praised by them who are most praiseworthy. … Philip Sidney A Double Entendre Toast A wee little dog passed a wee little tree Said the wee […]
From the Classical Age The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. … Horace Entry in Autograph Album ‘Tis done beneath the mistletoe, ‘Tis done “beneath the rose,” But the proper place to kiss, […]
Muslim Proverb The eating of a melon produces a thousand good works. From the Trivia File Jean Baptiste Lully, the composer, when beating time by tapping the floor with his staff, while directing a […]
Here’s the Difference Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. –Malcolm Cowley Danish Proverb He who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart. Great Expectations Thalestris: A […]
The Advent of the Superman O Quiet is the wind yet something stirs Between our world and heaven’s starry skies A spirit, shall I say, that knows a form Beyond all that which beauty can […]
Biography of a Notable Man Haroutioun Hovanes Chakmakjian (born Oct. 20, 1878, in Adana, Ottoman Empire; died May 22, 1973, in Jamaica Plain, Mass.) was a published scientist, as well as the father of American […]
‘Dikranagerdtsi’ Pig Latin In a bygone era, Dikranagerdtsi Armenian women conversed secretly in a cryptic form of what in America would be called Pig Latin. They are both a form of jargon. The Armenians referred […]
Bohemian Proverb As long as the language lives, the nation is not dead. White Collar Crime There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that […]
C’est Tout! I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches. —Alice Roosevelt Longworth German Proverb The hunt is a masculine ball, and the ball is a feminine […]
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