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>chequered, as he wanted (wrongly) to believe, life. They barely allowed him to make up Panopoulos’ identikit, iden-tikit being the portrait of a wanted terrorist or criminal of whom the police, based on conflicting statements from passers-by, sketched out. A basically negative portrait in the sense that it shows how someone is through what he is not, what he has through what he does not have and what he does through what he does not do, and which betrayed, in Panopoulos’ case, a person, strangely enough quite ordinary, someone

53 Ministry for the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works in the 80’s.

54 Patissia, Acharnes, Galatsi are working class neighbourhoods in Athens.

- Are you trying to tell us that one can become rich by writing? What planet are you on?

- We’re talking about a damn two-bed in Galatsi, and that on a loan, not a maisonette in Ekali.

You’ve said sat comfortably (or will say) about the toilet too.

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whose entire life story could fit into a gravestone in-scription, to such a degree that it made you wonder where he found the material to supply such a plethoric piece of work. A person, distant and unsociable, who tasted freedom, as oxymoronic as it sounds, more by withdrawing himself both into his own self and lair rather than in crowds, minglings, comings and goings which, especially as of late, he considered to be taking up precious time from the only activity that now gen-erally offered him rare delights - writing. Who, him? Who, as a student, had never managed to hand in a de-cent essay with an introduction, main body and con-clusion? Who only through threats or blackmail by his mother would sit down and write a letter, a shoddy one at that, to his grandma in the village? Who had never once submitted even the smallest sample of a short story for literary review? Who had never taken a single creative writing seminar?

His first steps in prose writing came late, at some point in his fifties, at an age, that is, when others reach the zenith of their maturity and creativity. Stergiou thought it as pointless to sit there and imagine what levels of mastery Panopoulos could have reached had he started sooner, as it was useful to figure out why he had start-ed so late. The answer however, that that’s when the

All right, you’ve said it. Do you want to be given an award too?

Mastery? Change it to just plain level, it’s enough already

Simos Panopoulos

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