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id="_idTextSpan45735" >a different era, when it was still referred to as the โ€˜weakerโ€™ one? When talking about intercourse it was still usual to say โ€œAleka gave herself to Constantinos with all the might of her soul?โ€ When no meant yes? The one of a Greece in the โ€˜70s, of the all-boys and all-girls secondary schools, of the porn cinemas in Acharnes avenue, the whorehouses of Filis street where the youths poured in to lose their virgin-ity, an era that he never manages to shake off, when the closest he ever got to a girl was looking at one through binoculars, from time to time at some party or at church? Even if his descriptions of men give you the chills? To the point that, want to or not, it makes you wonder, could Panourgias possibly be one of them? So shallow, so empty, so obsessive, so vain?โ€

โ€œEven, even, even! Understand this, once and for all: describing a situation is one thing, adopting it is an-other, the writer is one thing and another his charac-ters whom in crafting that way, means he surpasses them and sees them more with compassion, almost

In the logic of โ€˜keep talking, some of it will remainโ€™, I will allow you to invoke the same line of defence as in the interview.

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pity, than with admiration. Another aspect is also his incarnations which have weaselled their way into his books somewhere.โ€

โ€œThen maybe, even worse, and personally Iโ€™m leaning toward this particular hypothesis: Is he refusing any publicity because he himself rates his works as below average?โ€

โ€œAnd still publishes them? Why?โ€

โ€œHe must seek a second opinion, for better or for worse. Besides, he probably thought, you never know, someone might take the bait.โ€

โ€œGosh! Weโ€™ve not only taken the bait; weโ€™ve fallen right into it face first.โ€

โ€œAnyway, how do you imagine him to be?โ€

โ€œItโ€™s strange, but, with every writer, writing and ap-pearance go together hand in hand. One affects, al-most imposes on, the other.โ€

โ€œItโ€™s almost as though youโ€™re telling me that you would identify him in the same way the victim iden-tifies the perpetrator out of twenty or so ugly mugs at the police precinct, behind a glass screen.โ€

โ€œUnquestionably.โ€

+ like Hitchcock in his films.

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โ€œDo you completely rule out the possibility that he might be, I donโ€™t know, pot-bellied, bald, a hunch-back, bow-legged, a cheapskate and an old crock?โ€

โ€œBut it ceases to matter. His work acts as the Pool of Siloam and purifies all of his defects, it rechristens them, it makes them cherishable.โ€

โ€œVery nice. And now the crucial million-dollar ques-tion: If I were

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