In Azerbaijan, every normal male has two weddings. When he meets his soul mate and joins his life with hers, there arrives a "big wedding," sinfully lavish party to celebrate the marriage. But very, very before that, while he is still a pre-school kid, there arrives a surgeon or a barber and a "small wedding," this time sane party to mark his circumcision. Inevitable rite of passage.
Recently, on 18 October, a group of Azeri intelligentsia gathered at the town of Novkhani, just outside of Baku to discuss the dire situation of today's Azerbaijan and how our intellectuals can save our souls. The so-called Novkhani Forum was closed to the public and we still don't know the details. But two things are for sure - one decaying giant was explicitly absent, while another decaying giant took a jet from Moscow to be present.
Anyway, what would we do without rumours? Birds have told us that in the veriest beginning of the forum, there was some sort of a scandal. Even before the start of the forum, one MP and People's Writer, son of a People's Writer and brother of a People's Writer, has asked the forum to grant him the right to speak first, for he has to leave immediately for a small wedding. Barber has sharpened his blade and the boy has taken his pants off and everbody is waiting for the People's Writer to arrive for the ceremony to begin. To hell with nation's problems!
2 comments:
Wow. Over here they do it to babies so they don't remember.
Great. :)
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