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Passage to Ararat
I had the illusion of finally beginning to comprehend something important about the Armenians-something that might at least partly explain the peculiarly shrill and wounded quality of the Armenian response to the trauma of the Turkish massacres. For ever since I began my “investigations” of the Armenians / had been perplexed as to why so many of them, even today, still seemed inextricably fixated on the evil times that had befallen their people in Abdul-Hamid’s Turkey, and later, in 1915, at the hands of the Young Turks.