Drama. Not simply an example of paradox in literature or merely a trio of plays from the theatre of the absurd. Smarandache's dramas epitomize the perversion of power and the ambagious nature that plagues today's regimes--regardless of the ideology in which they veil themselves. The nonsensical dialogue, chauvinistic rulings, and paradoxical imagery in these plays mimic a regime's preoccupation with power-dominance, pride, self-grandiloquence, revenge, unpatriotic labeling of the opposition, and an ideology based not on constructive dialogue and equality, but on subjugation or annihilation. The Emperor has no clothes! Like the leader's constituency in Smarandache's dramas, many in today's society choose to hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil with regard to their own government--there lies the Axis of Evil...and the paradox!

Author City: GALLUP, NM USA

Florentin Smarandache was born in Romania, on December 10, 1954. He fled Romania in 1988, leaving behind his son and pregnant wife; after two years in refugee camps in Turkey, he immigrated to the United States in 1990. He obtained a doctorate degree in mathematics from the Moldova State University and is currently an associate professor at the University of New Mexico-Gallup (a community college). Smarandache is best known for a wide Internet self-publicity stunt carried out in recent years, by allegedly polluting many internet resources with his own writings, sometimes under his own name and, supposedly, many times under the name of others (Carol Harlestle, Charles T. Le, George Gregory, David Singh, etc) who seem to evangelize Smarandache's ideas.