Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (May 29, 2010)

It Ain’t Necessarily So

The Unrighteous Bible: An edition printed at Cambridge in 1653, containing the printer’s error, “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall inherit [for shall not inherit] the Kingdom of God?” (I Cor. vi, 9) The same edition gave Rom. vi, 13, as: “Neither yield ye your members as instruments of righteousness unto sin,” in place of “unrighteousness.”

The Wicked Bible: So called because the word not is omitted in the seventh commandment, making it, “Thou shalt commit adultery.” Printed at London by Barker and Lucas, 1632.

On a Squinting Poetess

To no one Muse does she her glance confine,

But has an eye, at once, to all the Nine.

…Thomas Moore

The Choice to Pursue in Our Lives

There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege it will always be at the expense of truth and justice.

…Julien Benda

The Great Question

Why am I me?

From My Persian Dictionary

Although not strictly Armenian, the following words have currency in everyday use by many Armenians, especially Dikranagerdtsis.

Tufang: carbine, musket.

Kákulah: cardamoms.

Karanful: clove.

Najjár: carpenter

What’s in a Name?

Gerekmezian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, gerekmez is defined as unnecessary, unfitting, unsuitable.

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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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