tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63217685764761449982024-03-04T20:18:44.589-08:00Julie Haines - AuthorSwimming with Big Fish
Buy a boat, get a cousin with a bomb
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Lesley</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415563310588_6152" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Jackie Dennis [mailto:director@nzauthors.org.nz]<br /><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 6 November 2014 5:38 p.m.<br /><b>To:</b> 'Lesley Marshall'<br /><b>Subject:</b> FW: From imprisoned poet Aron Atabek to Mr. L.Marshalla, Mr.Simpson and NZSA</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dear Lesley, have you seen this? It arrived this morning. If you click on the link and change the language to English you can see this on the sons website as well.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">How lovely to get a response.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Askar Aidarkhan [<a href="mailto:askaraidarkhan@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:askaraidarkhan@gmail.com">mailto:askaraidarkhan@gmail.com</a>]<br /><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 6 November 2014 12:33 a.m.<br /><b>To:</b> Director NZ Authors<br /><b>Subject:</b> From imprisoned poet Aron Atabek to Mr. L.Marshalla, Mr.Simpson and NZSA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dear Mr. L.Marshall, Dear Mr. Simpson and NZSA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am writing from Kazakhstan on behalf of my father imprisoned poet Aron Atabek. First of all thank you for your attention and letters addressed to Aron Atabek in prison.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently (in October) they gave him your letters. I am forwarding you my father's response with a poem dedicated to you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although I am not professional translator, I dared to translate the poem from Russian. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Along with letter text below pleas find attached: photos of Shanyrak micro-district from 2006 and the original image of the shanyrak as a symbol of basement for nomadic Kazakh dwelling.</span></div>
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Dear Mr. Marshall<br /><br />Thank you for your letters of solidarity and support. I received them recently, although according to the stamp they were delivered to Pavlodar in June 2014. What to do – there is a CENSORSHIP in prison and not every letter can pass trough. Keep in touch with my son – Askar AIDARKHAN. His English is pretty well, and he will forward your letters to me translated. Alas, I do not speak English.<br />As you can imagine, fighting against DICTATORSHIP requires sacrifice. We (I and six political-prisoners in Kazakhstan) – we are going along a sacrificial path to create DEMOCRACY and SOCIAL-JUSTICE in Kazakhstan. And if New Zealand PEN supports us – that gives us STRENGTH in STRUGGLE.<br />As a sign of my sincere gratitude and respect please accept a POEM.<br /><br />NEW ZEALAND ‘SHANYRAK’<br />for Lesley Marshall<br />and PEN-New-Zealand<br /><br />There is an empty chair in New Zealand –<br />Kept for me on writers’ congress,<br />That is the God to turn me –<br />Back to an ‘environment’, to a writer’s place!<br /><br />Writer is an armchair worm –<br />Gnawing science tomes,<br />Only sometimes he affects –<br />Having published poems and novels.<br /><br />And Life, seems to be passing by,<br />Writer – the life’s contemplator,<br />Yet he is present invisibly,<br />On the stricken filed with us.<br /><br />Writer, he is the THRID EYE –<br />And he sees through distance,<br />And contemplates the “SHANYRAK” –<br />And us, the fighters on the stricken field.<br /><br />And if in Kazakhstan bulldozer breaks homes –<br />Family’s asylum, a Holy Hearth,<br />By doing that they break<br />New Zealand ‘SHANYRAK’ too!<br /><br />As ‘SHANYRAK’ is not merely a shelter, roof –<br />In summer heat, in winter cold,<br />‘Shanyrak’ is a Segner wheel, given from above,<br />A symbol of the Sky, the Sun, the eternal motion!<br /><br />The world is a running Segner wheel –<br />From the crucifixion till the crucifixion<br />Christ, He also had been a REVOLUTIONARY –<br />Social-Justice and Democracy!<br /><br />Quotation: “And TENGRI sees my soul –<br />With the eyes of the *Aruakh,<br />With the Nation’s karma –<br />I am crucified on the ‘SHANYRAK’!<br /><br />…There is an empty chair in New Zealand –<br />Kept for me on writers’ congress,<br />Wait, my friends, and I will come back –<br />Not for an empty place!<br /><br />Aron ATABEK 12.10.2014<br />Pavlodar, SI-14, solitary confinement, punishment cell of the PKT, c.#36<br /><br />*Aruakh — Kazakh ‘Ancestor’s spirit’.</div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415563310588_6400" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Original text in Russian is available at </span><a href="http://aronatabek.com/lesli-marshallu-pen-klubu-novoj-zelandii.html" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415563310588_6403" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: purple; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1415563310588_6402" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://aronatabek.com/lesli-marshallu-pen-klubu-novoj-zelandii.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Regards,<br />Askar AIDARKHAN</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757495270780058178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321768576476144998.post-3652941418309231972014-04-16T19:35:00.000-07:002014-04-16T19:35:15.208-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> Dec 29, 2013 #Obama President Obama has at last got Congress to permit transfer of low risk prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to 'other countries." Dennis may be home soon...</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757495270780058178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321768576476144998.post-53644494805744291632014-04-13T22:06:00.001-07:002014-04-13T22:06:56.455-07:00<div class="ys" style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px 20px; position: relative;">
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President Obama has at last got Congress to permit transfer of low risk prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to 'other countries."<br />Dennis may be home soon! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757495270780058178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321768576476144998.post-90048562271818079032013-11-12T00:32:00.001-08:002014-02-20T18:15:16.488-08:00Swimming with Big Fish<br />
Dennis Bogdanovich, fisherman and genuine kiwi bloke is the hero of a novel to be published shortly, concerning events in London and elsewhere at the end of 2006 that involved an Electro-Magnetic Pulse bomb.<br />
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What you shoulda said - A kiwi joker goes to Russia to buy a glass-bottomed boat and gets sucked into helping paralyse London with a Rainbow Bomb. Ends badly.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757495270780058178noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6321768576476144998.post-64930764167180149192013-11-09T15:21:00.001-08:002014-02-20T18:25:09.752-08:00Dennis On the LooseDennis says he is not as bad as he used to be, for instance, in those couple of months at the end of 2006, when he dashed off to Russia to buy a glass-bottomed boat and all hell broke loose. It was not just his wife refusing to re-mortgage the house, it was the trouble his cousin had waiting for him in St. Petersburg. And then the US Government had to hold him up on his travel home. Ridiculous. The EMP and suitcase bombs in London were nothing to do with him. He only wanted to pep up the impression tourists get of the Maritime Reserve,at Leigh in Northland, New Zealand when they come to see the terrific fish around Goat Island.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757495270780058178noreply@blogger.com0