Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Oct. 17, 2009)

From The Devil’s Dictionary
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
—Ambrose Bierce
 
A Different Man
When a woman who asked Philip of Macedon to do her justice was snubbed by the petulant monarch, she exclaimed, “Philip, I shall appeal against this judgment.” “Appeal!” thundered the enraged king, “and to whom will you appeal?” “To Philip sober,” was her reply.
 
One Idea, Two Views
He who knows others is learned;
He who knows himself is wise.
—Laotse
 
Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
—Andre Gide
 
Confession
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
 
Unsettling Action
“Why don’t you settle this case out of court?” said the judge to the litigants before him.
The reply was, “Sure, and that’s what we were doing, your honor, when the police came and broke up the fight.”
 
What’s in a Name?
Seghpossian: Latin in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, Seghposs is the diminutive for Seghpesdros, the Armenian form of Sylvester, which denotes: bred in the country, rustic. Seghpossian was the family name of Armenian writer Levon Shant.

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CK Garabed

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C.K. Garabed (a.k.a. Charles Kasbarian) has been active in the Armenian Church and Armenian community organizations all his life. As a writer and editor, he has been a keen observer of, and outspoken commentator on, political and social matters affecting Armenian Americans. He has been a regular contributor to the Armenian Reporter and the AGBU Literary Quarterly, “ARARAT.” For the last 30 years, Garabed has been a regular contributor to the Armenian Weekly. He produces a weekly column called “Uncle Garabed's Notebook,” in which he presents an assortment of tales, anecdotes, poems, riddles, and trivia; for the past 10 years, each column has contained a deconstruction of an Armenian surname. He believes his greatest accomplishment in life, and his contribution to the Armenian nation, has been the espousing of Aghavni, and the begetting of Antranig and Lucine.

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