Word: melik
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Aram has as many eccentric uncles as Gracie Allen. Each of them is worth a Saroyan comic-tear or two. Uncle Melik "was just about the worst farmer that ever lived." On his godforsaken desert farm, he set out hundreds of pomegranate trees, poured all his love and money into them, lost both trees and land. Once he looked a horned toad straight in the eye. Then...
...mere literary tour de force. "Vive la France" is fairly interesting, but is spoiled by touches of bombast and inexcusable printer's errors. Much superior is "The Invention," which is out of the ordinary and distinctly amusing. Without doubt the best story of the issue is "The Dream of Melik the Goatherd," which is a very pleasing turn of fancy...
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