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>of his or her skills), as long as they are sending the ball where youโ€™d expect them to, the more you do your absolute best to match them. But if instead their game is com-pletely half-assed and has you constantly chasing af-ter the ball where you least expect it, out of courtesy, if nothing else, you end up imitating them to the point where an observer would wonder whether youโ€™re that same player whose game, under different circumstanc-es, used to be โ€œpure artโ€. He suspected that there was a biological explanation to the phenomenon, having recently read about the milestone discovery of mirror

Basta with that old chestnut.

- Here we go again with tennis.

- But itโ€™s been democratised, get with the times, and after all, table tennis isnโ€™t suitable for litera-ture due to smaller range of movement.

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neurons and their role in imitation learning. If the lit-tle monkey learns how to peel the banana by watching its mother do it first, it owes it to those same mirror neurons. The problem possibly rested with both imi-tator and imitated, therefore, if a social get-together, romantic or not, went completely south.

And, boy, had this specific one gone downhill alright. First of all, it had started with the worst of omens. The seemingly innocent phrase โ€œI am looking for a man who shares my interestsโ€ on her profile (even if by โ€œinterestsโ€ she didnโ€™t actually mean the material ones), negatively predisposed him as much as she didnโ€™t elaborate on them. As did her quirk of saying poleos (ฯ€ฯŒฮปฮตฯ‰ฯ‚) instead of polis (ฯ€ฯŒฮปฮทฯ‚)8 that made her sound, at the very least, rather right-wing. Even more alarming was the fact that, in stark contrast to Aphrodite who nagged him to meet up as early as pos-sible so they could get it over and done with, which they did that very morning, Penelope โ€“ thatโ€™s what this one was called โ€“ had practically made him jump through hoops to get her to agree to the date. There

8 In Greek there are two ways of saying the same thing, town(ฯ€ฯŒฮปฮท) in the example above, the one being the archaic form (katharevousa) and the other the vernacular (demotic), forms whose choice finally end up denoting their usersโ€™ politi-cal views.

- What does Babis care? Heโ€™s looking for a date, anyway.

- Oh, he cares, all right.

Idea: Something that for Babis was the equivalent of, talking about colonelsโ€™ dictatorship and their coup dโ€™รฉtat, saying instead The Seven Years

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