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Posted by farid (Guest) - Friday, October 17 2003, 19:04:50 (EDT)
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I'm sure he feels slighted now and is going to tell his pals that I took advantage of him as long as the money lasted and then turned on him when he turned off the spigot. That ain't the way it wuz. I wrote about him and talked about without bothering about his money. He's the one who's out, not me.

The guy was gutsy and took a big risk 20 years ago when he agreed to help out...lending his name, the thing he earns his bread with, to this cause...as Anna Eshoo and others did. But he crapped out at the end...he choked. Now that years later I had the chance to pay him back in spades and bring some distinction to his name that would last longer than a souffle or puff pastry. We could have donated monuments and sculptures all over the place and he would have re-couped all he ever spent and then some and best of all Uncle Sam would have footed the bill...like our cousins the Jews figured out how to do long ago.Instead it's back to begging a buck here and ten bucks there...back in the kitchen among the pots and pans...the expensive pots and pans...Narsai went. You can take the cook out of the kitchen but you can't take the kitchen out of the cook.

BIt was fear again...fear and a craving for humiliation that did him in. We have always cared more for what the stupidest, the most backward and ignorant among us thinks of us...tailoring our deeds and words so as not to get their nasty little mouths and their pig-ignorant brains working against us for fear of what they would say...the names they would call us, the letters and phone calls and rumors they would let loose.

Let 100 intelligent Assyrians comment favorably on you and it will count as nothing compared to the icy hand of fear that grips us when one jackass...a Dadeeshoo or Sarguis or Aprim threatens to "expowse" us. And let the thought that a Jackie or Solkha will sue us and you can put Assyria and Assyrians inside a shoe box and drown the lot of them in Holy Piss water and the world will never know the difference.

Far more important than what these people achieve is what they can get for themselves. Since monuments cost money...even when there's no profit in them...I'm the one who's pointed to as being "out for money". It's true that these others, Narsai, Bejan, Dimrod, Golani...don't earn their daily bread from anything Assyrian...they're cooks or engineers or manufactureres or salespeople...same as anybody else in the land...and if their livlihood DID depend on anything Assyrian, they'd have starved to death by now or you wouldn't hear an "Assyrian" peep out of them.

It's a hobby they indulge in their spare time...and it has to, above all, cost them next to nothing...after all, they are all "serious" people..."busy" people...who have no time to play around like I do...to risk my family's well being and future on the roll of Assyrian dice...what do I think they are CRAZY?

No...I think they are charlatans and posseurs...I think they strike a noble looking pose when the cameras are on...I think as long as it's low-risk you can count on them to be full-volume...and as if to convince us and overcome their own suspicion that their truer motives show through...they make a great show of the hours they spend and the money they spend and the time from work they spend and the miles they spend and the telephone bills they spend and the food they spend and the clothes they spend...and all of...ALL OF IT for darling and dear Assyria. When the truth is... NEVER has being Assyrian been so fucking cheap and easy and slipshod a thing!!!

Narsai is just the best of the worst...that's all. And I still honor him for what is honorable and I'll defend the man's gifts and his real efforts to the death. But Jackie couldn't fuck me and Narsai can't buy me and not a one of them can scare me...naturally then I have to be driven out of Assyria.

In the words of Coriolanus..."I banish YOU"!

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