In le 11 de septembre, le prime anniversario del attacos del terroristas
de al-Qaeda ci in citate de Nove York, in un servicio pro honorar le
pacificos in le ecclesia de Sancto Marco, Kurt Vonnegut, un del plus
grande autores vivente in le lingua anglese, ha parlate. Con le adjuta
del altere Jay (Bowks), io ha un traduction de su parolas complete (le
original in anglese seque).

Iste nocte, lunedi, al hora de medienocte (in Nova York; 4:00 AM martedi
GMT) in mi programma de television "Realistic Utopia" (vidibile in le
rete*) io presenta le video de Kurt Vonnegut (e alsi un entrevista con
mi metre, le autor del libro "Smyrna: 1922," un historia (nominate pro
le prestigiose pretio american, le Pulitzer Prize) del foco que ha
destruite le citate de Smyrna ante 80 annos.

Le sequente son le parolas de Kurt Vonnegut, septembre 11 2002:

  Amatos Carissime, le texto iste nocte es del evangelio de Mattheo:
  "Benedicte son le pacificos, perque illes sera appellate filios de
  Deo"

  Usque ora il ha habite solmente un nation bastante insan pro detonar
  armas atomic in medio de un population civil, transformante les a
  cineres e farina de ossos radioactive. Vamos precar, in iste loco
  sancte:
  "Car Deo, Per favor, non permitte existir jammais un altere nation
  como illo."

  Le mundo notara poco ni memorara per longe lo que nos dice ci.
  Isto es perque nos son sin poter. nos son sin poter. Le Pace ha necun
  representante in Washington, DC. Perque non? Perque le pace non
  diverte. Continentia non diverte. Que diverte? Ben, ascolta iste
  scriptor mercenari: le vengiantia, como le sexo, diverte multo:
  "Clausura, da me clausura! Raaarghh!"

  George W Bush, con su education simplice, forsan pote creder que Deo
  o Jesus o Moses o alicuno ha dicite isto pro un commandamento:
  "Oculo pro oculo, e dente pro dente"

  Ma de facto, le rege babylonian Hammurabi lo ha dicite. E ille non
  incoragiava su populo a devenir plus feroce, ni plus sanguinari, ma
  ille voleva minuer les in isto. "Si vos exige vengiantia, vos vengiara
  usque isto e non plus. Nam alteremente, totos in Babylonia va exiger
  clausura, e jam nostre grande nation ira al cloacas del historia."

  Le qual lo faceva.


  Dearly beloved, the text tonight is from the gospel of Matthew.
  "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of
  God."

  There has so far been only one nation crazy enough to detonate atomic
  weapons in the midst of civilian populations, turning unarmed men,
  women and children into radioactive soot and bone meal. Let us pray,
  in this holy place:
  "Dear God, please don't ever let there be another nation like that."

  The world will little note nor long remember what we say here. This is
  because we are powerless. Peace has no representative in Washington,
  D.C. Why not? Peace is not entertaining. What is entertaining? Well,
  take it from this old hack writer: revenge, like sex, is very
  entertaining:
  "Closure, gimme closure! Raaarghh!"

  George W Bush, with his no frills education, may believe that God or
  Jesus or Moses or somebody said this for a commandment:
  "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

  But in fact, the Babylonian king Hammurabi said it. And he wasn't
  urging his own people to be more ferocious, more blooodthirsty; he was
  trying to make them less so. He was saying:
  "If you must seek revenge, you are entitled to this much and not one
  bit more. Otherwise, everyone in Babylonia is going to be seeking
  closure, and our once great country will go down the toilet of
  history."

  Which it did.

*Realistic Utopia es vidibile a 12:00 AM lunedi nocte (4:00 AM GMT
martedi) a www.mnn.org (clicca in canal 34) e in le television  per
cable in Manhattan (canal 34 Time Warner/canal 107 RCN).

-Jay/Julio Dobkin