FROM THE EDITOR

Dr. Emzar Djgerenaia

“After the number of art specialists (experts)
has increased, art has become a rarity itself”
Richard Wagner
“The more foolish things I do,
the more popular I become”

John Kennedy We have finally got rid of winter and plunged into the much-desired green. The warmth has brought with it lofty thoughts, love, poetic mood and splendour of bee murmur in the bud of almond-tree flowers.
Everything around has been covered with green. There is more blue, grey and white colour, but green one is more appealing to us. It comforts us as buoyant leaves comfort plane trees growing on the bank of Inguri. Besides, green is a good background. Black, yellow, red and blue colour goes with it. In one word, green reminds me of billiard. Billiard is a great game – a game of kings and politicians. Just look: all balls are yours and at the same time, they are others’. All holes belong to you and at the same time, they serve others. Everything depends on time and space. Besides, you will not be able to do anything with blague and demagogue. If you have strong hand and quick eye, you win, no matter in which hole you lay egg, sorry, ball. Billiard resembles neither politics, nor economy where you can say that you have a programme of saving Georgia, a new economic plan, innovations that you have brought from abroad and that you do not impart to anyone, but you present them and assert that “Georgia has no economists” so no one will be able to understand it. And already you become Messiah… But what does May have to do with it?
Is not it because sun shines, someone feasts and others bawl and squal in meetings. Yet, who denies innovations, presentations and expertisations?
No, it is definitely the fault of sun. May is a strange month – there is much sun and ferocious heat.
Fantastic game is billiard. If you can, you should strike, if you cannot, take something else instead of cue. In fact, there is the same in economy: if you know, you should write, and we will see. If you cannot, then go to factory and shoot the breeze there. Georgia is a small country and it does not bear giants. Tbilisi is also a small city and there are so many experts of economy that some decided not to interfere and went to Guria to grow grapes, others decided to play billiard.
Oh, billiard is a special game. If you can, you should strike. If you cannot, go to Jericho! A certain expert is said to have arrived from Georgia. We have enough experts here, but of such level…
Spring and spirit is rejoicing. We celebrate arrival of expert, sorry, super-expert, rather than Independence Day and pipelaying in Kakheti. No, it is definitely the fault of sun.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Recover, Georgia! Rejoice, economists – the formula is found!