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    Mammyland (Poetically-Prosaic, As Well Anti-Democratic, Amalgamation)

    By Ochnavi Atatoj

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    This is the beginning, ||
    My dear (because of your small number) readers, |
    I have decided in principle to stop writing under this pseudonym, because this takes too much of my time, and I have already told all what I had to tell, I have proposed even a political party, yet there is no rule without exceptions, as you know, so that after the Muse quite unexpectedly visited me, exactly at minus / plus one week around our 24-th May 2019 [what is our Day of Slavonic Culture], I decided to squeeze out of myself (in the same way like I squeeze out something else when am with some girl) everything what I can for this short interval of time, and it turned out that these happened to be about 200 poetical lines. Yeah, but poetical or not, what are so few lines for me, I don’t write materials shorter than 4-5 pages, so that I decided to sprinkle them with my philosophical judgements, which sometimes become so profound, that some of you may begin to think that I have gone crazy [what in Bulgarian is derivative from saying “cuckoo”], yet this is wrong conclusion (because I will never say “cuckoo” or “crow” or the like — if it will be so necessary to say something I will rather angrily cry: “Down with the democracy, long live the reason!”, or something of the kind). Well, also to have a bit of fun, of course, for the simple reason that, when I have no money, then I am in my rights to want to have at least some fun out of this. Also I don’t intend to translate this material in other languages (due to the poetry) [yet later I decided that I can retell the poetry and make this only in English], so that I took the decision to write it. |
    OK, let me begin then with the name of our nation, or rather with our little children. [Ah, and here begins to appear heap of jargon words, which I will explain more or less, but for the citing of Bulgarian words I will need to use one widely met vowel, which is like in your “girl”, and which I will mark as ‘y’, and with single quotes I will give the reading; also ‘j’ will be used for softening of the consonants, while ‘h’ will be for hardening, and together with this ‘j’ will be used for making of diphthongs (like in may-‘maj’), and ‘h’ for prolongation of vowels; plus that the usage of ‘ch, sh, zh’ must be obvious.] ||
    ‘BLYGARCHE’| [what is distorted from Bulgarian child in the way how some foreign people, say Chinese, pronounce it ... .] |
    [Here follow 5 couplets by 4 lines, with the idea that I am so glad to be called Bulgarian child, how you would never believe, with really untranslatable jargons and distortions of words, where I rhyme Chinese with rabbit, the syllable ‘blyg’ with our wolf, then that I am so glad that as if run or fly, then that else I could have begun to curse my father for not being born myself Bulgarian because this is the ethnicity of high demand in the moment, then that there is no higher delight for me than to be called Bulgarian, and even the ... bayram is nothing compared with the joy of being Bulgarian, and then in the sublime last couplet I declare that am ready to tell before everyone who wants to listen that I highly praise the ... prick of my father.] ||
    Ah, as if there is noting to explain to you here, I am so glad that am Bulgarian (albeit pretty old) child, that there is nothing exceeding this my joy. Because the Chinese and the Arabs are now as if 5 %, plus at least 25 % Gypsies called Romas, and 30 % Turks called Bulgarians, what (together with some other minorities) reaches about 2/3 of our population, but in any case more than the half! Congratulations for our democratic eradication of Bulgarian essence, in the first scene of my material. For I would have accepted with pleasure some 15-20 % minorities, this enlivens the gene, yet more than the half now means, that we have no rights to call us ... Bulgaristan, but probably /Turko-Tzigo-stan/ [or Turko-Gypsy-stan for you], ah, how like you this impromptu of mine? Well, it might be also /Turkotzig

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    PublisherOchnavi Atatoj
    Release dateFeb 1, 2021
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    Ochnavi Atatoj

    Let me say that I, Ochnavi Atatoj, am a CLONE of (still un-) known (but that is why I publish myself, for to become known) Ivancho Jotata, about whom is true the following.Well, I am nobody! I mean that this name in Bulgarian is used for one of the people, whoever, yet this time I am an ancestral intellectual, with 2.5 tertiary educations in the exact sciences, received in 3 different countries, having worked in several scientific Institutes, including Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia University “Kl. Ohridski", and others, but all this in totalitarian times, till 1990. With the coming of Bulgarian democracy I have remained permanently unemployed, and so for more than 25 years, until I at last went to pension. And there exactly lies the core reason for my emerging as writer under this pseudonym, because there are a heap of things to say to my people but our authorities, and ALL of them, did not bother even to answer me and prefer simply to silence me.Yeah, but not me. Because I have behind me about 25 or so years as and thinker, have written about 20 books and booklets, and this in three languages, on various demo-critical topics, with a bunch of proposition in various fields, with significant contribution to the field of linguistics, with several 1000s poetic lines, and with a heap of time to fill and to spread my works in the world.Ah, when it is already clear that Jotata and Atatoj are one and the same (invented) person, then I will not bother to change his name in the works, I increase his rating, and he in his turn my, see how good it is. Well, nice reading.--- or in RussianЗначит так, я, Очнави Ататой, КЛОНИНГ (ещё не-) известного (но я потому и публикуюсь, чтобы он стал известным) Иванчо Йотата, о котором справедливо следующее.Ну, я можно сказать никто! Я имею в виду, что это имя в Болгарии используется для обозначения обычного человека из народа, кого-нибудь, хотя на этот раз я потомственный интеллигент, с 2.5 университетскими образованиями в области точных наук, полученных в 3 разных странах, который работал в разных научных институтах, включаю Болгарскую Академию Наук, Софийский Университет "Кл. Охридский", и другие, но всё это в тоталитарных годах, до 1990-го. С приходом болгарской демократии я стал постоянным безработным, и это уже больше чем 25 лет подряд, пока наконец я вышел на пенсию. И как раз здесь основная причина для моего появления как писатель, под этим псевдонимом, поскольку у меня куча вещей, которые хочется сказать людям, но наши власти, и при том ВСЕ они, вообще не думают отвечать мне и предпочитают попросту глушить меня.Да, но только не меня. Потому что у меня за спиной примерно 25 лет работы как думающий человек, как мыслитель, я написал больше 20 книг и книжечек, и это на трёх языках, на разных демо-критических темах, с кучей предложений в разных областях, со значительным вкладом на поле лингвистики, с несколькими тысячами поэтических строк, тоже на трёх языках, и с уймой времени для заполнения и распространения моих произведения по всему миру.А, раз уже ясно, что Йотата и Ататой один и тот же (выдуманный) человек, то я не буду пытаться менять его имя в произведениях, я повышаю его рейтинг, и он в свою очередь мой, вот как хорошо. Ну, приятного чтения.

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