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id="_idTextSpan26390" >on earth did he get the idea to write?” that concerned the before-and-the-up-until, as much as the answers that corresponded to the two questions fed off the same placenta, it didn’t identify with it100%, as it had more to do with the here-and-now in addition to the next. Only one thing is certain, and make of it what you will: namely that the first word he typed for what was destined to be his debut work was – weird? weird; insane? insane – on the day when, throughout the entire duration of his flight from Rhodes to Athens, he never once turned around to say a word to the bombshell sitting next to him. When instead of hitting on her hard and come what may, he opted for reading a book. When, at the terminal, last but not least, right before boarding, she

+ from where, acting on Alexandra’s β€œhic Rhodus, hic salta,” he was returning empty-handed.

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had gone past him, he didn’t feel the irresistible tug to turn his head and fixate on her distancing silhouette.

- Does this seem to you as valid reason for someone to start writing?

- There’s nowt so queer as folk.

- Silhouette, it’s not enough. Also write β€œand especially her bottom”.

- Don’t insist because, on my life, we’ll end up making an ass of ourselves.

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Chapter 16

Turning his back, however, to the energy-sapping task of mating in order to start writing was a sine qua non, given that simply shrugging off the nerve-racking worries of a couple would never be enough. Yet, to first start writing so that he would then really get into the writer’s role was not a prerequisite. The two went hand in hand. Provided he had many and important things to say. Urbi et orbi. And, indeed, he did. Or rather he thought he did, and that’s what mattered. And, by God, he would say it all, even if he had to, if necessary, pry it out of himself. Say it all - who? Babis, who when out with friends, if the group did not consist of less than two people, even one, not just any one of course, and ideally no one, would never speak up. The guy who, every time he’d attempt to tell a joke, would mess it up so badly that, by the end of it, it neither made sense nor was funny. Or was this, per-haps, the whole point? In writing, he would essentially be addressing each and every future reader privately. A reader, who, if nothing else, would not ignore him, would not interrupt

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