To THE BRITISH PUBLIC
To your enterprising spirit of inquiry, which more than any other nation has extended its researches into the regions of the East this little collection of ARMENIAN POPULAR SONGS is presented. It is not be denied that from a nation like the Armenian, which boasts, and justly, of being one of the most ancient of the East and which has possessed for so long a period the advantages of a cultivated and flourishing literature something more copious and elegant might have been expected; but considering the frequent revolutions of that unhappy nation, and the incursions of so many barbarous tribes, which., during the oppressive slavery to which they reduced its inhabitants, not only destroyed its arts and literature, but even extinguished the last gleam of the poetic fire of the Sons of Ararat: it is hoped that even this humble collection offered as a specimen only, and for the first time translated into an European language, may find favour with a People, so enlightened, and one that so greatly encourages every work calculated to illustrate any portion of the vast field of Ancient East.

У дочки появился свой дневник (нет не блог, а по-старинке, ручкой в блокнотике). 
Блокнотик этот маленький, с Винни-Пухом на обложке и маленьким замочком. 
Сегодня говорит она дяде: 
-- Это мой дневник. я туда записываю мои мысли.
-- Да, это хорошо, -- отвечает дядя, -- а тогда для чего в твоём дневнике замочек?..
-- А  это для того, -- говорит малышка, -- чтобы мои мысли никто не прочитал, потому что это дневник. 
А без замочка это уже не дневник. 
Это книга.

( ...моя челюсть под столом, почему в пять-шесть лет я не додумывался до таких глубоких истин?.. )

I love my shreader because: 

• it was purchased just today, and I never owned any shreders before this one
• working with it can be just as philosophical or just as plain as it's user
• it does just one thing, but it does it well, when it wants
• it has its own personality
• it helps us, humans, return remains of the trees back to the nature
• it is a bare necessity for every person with documents
• it converts 3 pounds of paper into a 3 pounds of paper (albeit in a more fluffy and unreadable condition)
• destroying papers is a liberating experience (most of the time)
• people who use shreader a lot generally sleep better.

Good nite!..

SIRELI PAREGAMNER:

MEDZ HAJUIKOV, HRAVIRUM ENK TZEZ UNGNTRELU MI NOR RADIOHAGHORTUM:

"ARMENIA, UN LUGAR EN EL MUNDO"

(ARMENIA, MI DEGH ASHKHARHUM)