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id="_idTextSpan47090" >guaranteed at least a couple of months of griping from his girlfriend. And, most importantly, that it would fundamentally change his life.

Stergiouโ€™s first task was to immerse himself into his collected works. And this is where the added value of his dissertation was, because, maybe even for the first time in the chronicles of criticism, he actually sat down to read him critically. Word for word, with a pencil in hand since, as he quickly realised, Panopou-losโ€™s every word, be it present or, funnily enough,

44 Hint to the fact that the so-called barren (ฮฌฮณฮฟฮฝฮทฯ‚) line islands, where these ships operate under state subsidies, are the youngsters favourite holiday destination.

- Now, post-modern, albeit post-, I donโ€™t know if you can call me that.

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- I donโ€™t think so. Vulgar structuralist rather.

- You were saying something about the remorseless persecution of clichรฉs. Is there a bigger clichรฉ than the moaning woman and her grumbling?

- I am not entirely sure it is a clichรฉ. Women generally indulge in making remarks.

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even absent, counted. ฮคhe present, because it was ob-ligated by law to prove, displaying at any given mo-ment the relevant badge, that it was not an interloper, that it was accredited, that in other words โ€“ as in a dish where the slightest seasoning is added only if it adds something to it โ€“ its presence served some particular purpose; and the absent, thanks to its justified absence from the text, sparing it from anything undesirable or inappropriate. Along the way, he would discover that the same by extension was true about the phrases, the paragraphs, the chapters, as well as his entire novels.

In the beginning, to be perfectly honest, Stergiou had a tough time. As it were, he belonged to a gen-eration completely unaccustomed to reading recalci-trant texts, thatโ€™s why he came very close to giving it all up and only the prospect of having to, in a rush, change his dissertation topic prevented him from doing so. From thereon it was only a matter of time before he warmed to it. And, yes, if there is some-thing that grows old before you know it itโ€™s the writ-ten word, but Panopoulosโ€™s, despite the secludedness it went through to which even Kostalexi45 paled in

45 In 1978, in Kostalexi village in Lamia municipality, the police found in the basement of a house a young woman held there by her family over the course of 29 years for having an

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