Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Feb. 23, 2013)

What’s New?

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.

…Samuel Johnson

 

The Bee and the Cuckoo

“Stop, Cuckoo,” said the Bee;

“With my labors interferes

That unpleasant voice of thine,

Always ringing in my ears.

 

There is no bird in song,

So monotonous as thou,

It is cuckoo all day long,

And nothing but cuckoo!”

 

“Wearies you my monotone?’

The Cuckoo straight rejoined;

”So, too, one shape alone,

In thy waxen cells, I find

 

If, in the self-same way,

You make a hundred as each one;

If I nothing new can say,

Nothing new by you is done.”

 

…Yriarte’s fables

 

From My Persian Dictionary

Máhí: fish

Mazah: flavor

Gul; flower

Gulzár: flower garden

 

What’s in a Name?

Sinanian: Arabic in derivation, identified as a trade or descriptive term, sinan is defined as a lance, and the bearer of the name was either a maker/seller of such, or who stood and walked erectly.