The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: genocide

at the mercy of confusion

8 May 2008, around 7.57.

In Jerusalem, I had spent much of my time among the books of Gulbenkian library, following the loose threads of Armenian history. But the massacres, I put off until the end. What I’d been reluctant to start absorbed me at once; it was that that I had been afraid of. Everything else seemed meaningless when […]

Citation (39)

27 December 2009, around 4.59.

the dangers of logic…

Azerbaijan Diary

15 January 2011, around 19.48.

Thomas Goltz. Azerbaijan Diary. London: M.E. Sharpe, 1999. You cannot persuade a party of frenzied nationalists that two blacks do not make a white; consequently, no day went by without a catalogue of complaints from both sides, Armenians and Tartars, of unprovoked attacks, murders, village burnings and the like… —C.E. Bechhofer (1920) (qtd. in De […]

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