Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Feb. 13, 2016)
Spanish Proverb
A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground.
The Silver Lining
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
… John Keats
Lapsus Linguae
We wanted Li Wing
But we winged Willie Wong,
A sad but excusable
Slip of the tong.
… Keith Preston
Epitaph for Himself
THE BODY
OF
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
(LIKE THE COVER OF AN OLD BOOK,
ITS CONTENTS TORN OUT,
AND STRIPT OF ITS LETTERING AND GILDING),
LIES HERE FOOD FOR WORMS;
YET THE WORK ITSELF SHALL NOT BE LOST
FOR IT WILL (AS HE BELIEVED) APPEAR ONCE MORE
IN A NEW
AND MORE BEAUTIFUL EDITION
CORRECTED AND AMENDED
BY
THE AUTHOR.
What’s in a Name?
Loshkajian: Turkish in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, loshkhaji is defined as blowhard, story-teller, liar.
