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An hour ago, at the bookshop E…s, given that in a specially designed space there was also a coffee shop, where you could chill out with a book of your choice while other clients, some even with red plastic baskets in hand in fact, were doing their shopping to the sound of pop tunes - the ambiance that prevailed was that of a bookshop, a coffee shop and a supermarket, all at the same time. According moreover to some unveri-fied rumours, a diffuse (but imperceptible to those that didn’t even care, or were not of a disposition to feel it) hint of flirtation was floating in the air.

The fact that the above coexisted and unfolded along-side books which, as their titles after all suggested (Acceleration and alienation, Simulations and simu-lacra, Capitalism and schizophrenia, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, Symbolic Misery, The Society of the Spectacle, The ecliptic of sex, The Rising Tide of Insignificance) analysed it, neither seemed to touch nor impress anyone – like for exam-ple the group talking politics or the lonely gentleman enjoying his profiterole, slurping every now and again on his frappuccino – more than the average Athenian who treads on the same streets that Socrates once did.

Something that the reader will do with you.

- Why put these in if you’ve never even read them?!

- Their titles speak for themselves.

Well, did you expect them to be doing backflips or what?

Simos Panopoulos - Look at that

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Babis had become completely distracted, eavesdrop-ping on the conversation the couple behind him were having. “Are you game for Constantinople16 for Eas-ter?” the woman asked, probably on account of some travel guide she was leafing through. “You’re not right in the head,” the man replied, chewing. “Forget it! Have you got a death wish or something? It’s by far the most at-risk city for a terrorist act right now,” he added, parking a whole mouthful of sandwich into his left cheek, at the exact moment Babis turned around to identify the perpetrator of the comments. “None of that. Staying in Greece17. Forever.”

“Have you noticed that lately in every phrase you drop in an English word? If you keep this up, it’s going to become a habit, I’m telling you. And not for nothing, but you’ll be unintentionally contributing to the creo-lisation of our language.”

“Creolisation? What the fuck?”

“Don’t you know what creolisation is? Have you been living under a rock? Does creole language mean any-thing to you? Creolisation. It’s when…”

16 That’s what Greeks call Istanbul.

17 Name of popular tv show about holidays (We stay in Greece, Μένουμε Ελλάδα).

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