I spoke a great deal with Z. about the "table of time" and it interested us very much as to what G. would say about it when we saw him. Meanwhile time was passing. At last—it was already early in June—I received a telegram from Alexandropol: "If you want to rest come here to me."—That was G.!
There was a comment about the following paragraph in the above reading, regarding "They were Greeks."
"I met his family, his father, and his mother. They were people of a very old and very peculiar culture. G.'s father was an amateur of local tales, legends, and traditions, something in the nature of a "bard"; and he knew by heart thousands and thousands of verses in the local idioms. They were Greeks from Asia Minor, but the language of the house, as of all the others in Alexandropol, was Armenian." (p.340)
There seem to be many arguments about whether both Gurdjieff's parents were Greek, or whether his mother was Armenian. See, for example, Wikipedia.
There was a comment about the following paragraph in the above reading, regarding "They were Greeks."
"I met his family, his father, and his mother. They were people of a very old and very peculiar culture. G.'s father was an amateur of local tales, legends, and traditions, something in the nature of a "bard"; and he knew by heart thousands and thousands of verses in the local idioms. They were Greeks from Asia Minor, but the language of the house, as of all the others in Alexandropol, was Armenian." (p.340)
There seem to be many arguments about whether both Gurdjieff's parents were Greek, or whether his mother was Armenian. See, for example, Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gurdjieff (Not all the arguments in the references seem watertight, however, on either side.)