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, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
…Malcolm X
From the Word Lab
The glass slipper in the Cinderella story should be the fur slipper—pantoufle en vair, not en verre—the English version being taken from the French Contes de Fees of C. Perrault, 1697.
Daffy-nition
Wizard: Someone who can describe without gestures an accordion, a spiral staircase, or a girl.
Double Standard
We criticize Turkey for criminalizing free speech, yet we are ready to criminalize anyone who exercises free speech to question the veracity of the Armenian Genocide.
Frankly Speaking
Edo: Since you took up writing as a career, have you sold anything yet?
Bedo: Yes, my best suit, my watch, and some furniture.
What’s in a Name?
Markarian: Armenian in derivation, identified as a calling, markar is defined as prophet, predictor.
CK Garabed
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The “Double Standard” section was something new, not quite in keeping with past writings in terms of tone or content. Would Uncle Garabed care to write a longer piece elaborating his thoughts? I think it would be interesting and worthy of consideration.
Dear Nareg:
Most Armenians are too close to the problem to see the contradiction. Even those scholars who describe the relation between Holocaust and Armenian Genocide deniers address only the similarities and not the differences. I’m sure you are aware of the differences such as the obtaining of university chairs versus being fined, imprisoned, and subject to loss of livelihood. So called deniers who are in error should be exposed for their poor scholarship.
Uncle Garabed prefers to use the time honored term Historical Revisionist. because the truth can never hurt an hinest man. Take a look at all the WW I propaganda that was readily acknowledged later to be such. Nothing like that happened after WW II. And there is much yet to be set straight. Armenians should exercise care in invoking dubious historical claims. We have enough legitimate data to rely on without adding doubtful claims that only provide our critics with ammunition.
When the time is right, and if he lives long enough, Uncle Garabed hopes to treat of the subject more extensively.