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Re: Emil and the Barbarians
Posted by parhad (Guest) - Monday, January 3 2005, 20:13:22 (CET)
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...is it so far fetched to say this is completely unheard of in our community? While there may be other Assyrians of this depth and aptitude, There are none I know of who take joy in being Assyrian as well...who haven't run, screaming in the night, to get away from the heritage or fellow Assyrians.

...I have great respect for Ninos Aho and other writers and thinkers of ours who have their heads on straight and not just their hearts pounding. But Emil is in a different category altogether...in fact he IS the category...he fills it up completely on his own. Our asshole Assyrians would take great falsepride in being the ONLY ones at anything...but I know Emil wishes for company as I do. Puny people make the greatest noise...as the emptiest pot booms the loudest.

Emil is our missing link...the anchor we can drop in American cultural life to hold our immigrant ship in place and get us to shore safely whereas till now only the rats have scrambled overboard. Through his writing we can feel like we've truly arrived. And if you have any doubts...ask Aprim and Jizzboo what they think of Emil.

>"It becomes more and more silly to me that we should waste this single chance at living our precious lives passively hoping and praying for rewards in the afterlife. All the while neglecting our present opportunity at achieving a very real and immediate sense of purpose and completion. Here and now. As we are. Imperfect. I want to concentrate my energy not toward the unknown, but the attainable- love for my family, self, and life. It seems that living for something else, someplace else, would distract us from the deep living and deep loving we could be experiencing now. Here. Why strive for something unknown and uncertain, something so nebulous, when the ones we love are right here, flesh and blood, longing for our acceptance and approval that yes, they are deserving of our acceptance no matter how far they have steered from our expectations? My heaven, my next ten thousand lives are here in me, with me, everywhere.
>I am alive and grateful, conscious enough, aware enough to love now, to improve now, to face my nature and death, to inspire, to sing, to live, to write, and to feel, feel, feel…"



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