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lessly expelled from Apostolis.”

“As long, of course, as he is middle-aged, with a bit of a bald patch and, albeit an athletic type, a bit of a beer belly, is an incurable ladies’ man even though he can never score a date not even in his dreams, and – I quote – he ‘decided on a whim, where his essays barely ever got a passing grade, to start writing all of a sudden.’ Who are you kidding?”

“You are sadly deluded if you think me as simplistic as Apostolis. And, in any case, in the last few years, even the dogs in the streets have started to write.”

“Why choose anonymity then?”

“I refer you, in order to cut to the chase, to page 94 of my book.”

“Pass. If not roman à clef40, I will then assume, since it contains, as you say, approximately twenty-five short stories, that it is essentially a roman à tiroirs41, as the French would say?”

“Assume away, hence how it is read is key, as the Brits would say.”

40 A novel with intense autobiographical elements, where simply the naming convention is changed.

41 A novel where some interjecting chapters having no imme-diate connection to the main plot.