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Part Two
Chapter 14
“The commotion of the door closing and the tap tap-ping of her pumps in the corridor had barely dwindled, and already, an idea about how from now on he would fill his – who knew for how long, maybe even forever – lonely life began to take shape and form in his brain which, to such blows – and, believe me, he had experi-enced many – reacted by reflex like, mutatis mutandis, Pavlov’s dog’s salivary glands at the lighting of the red lamp. This time, however, instead of the company of the typical female who would only in a matter of time fall in his snare, he fantasized being invited on Vassilis Vassilikos21’ talk show “Axion Esti” on ERT3. He could feel his nostrils fill up with the scent from his pipe. He was wearing his trademark hat. Albeit of a certain age now, he still maintained that characteris-tic witty spark in his eyes intact. He was reading out a phrase from his book which he had previously not-
21 Greek writer, known for his novel Z.
You know what I fear the most? That the soldering, by force, of the second part with the first will be as artificial and odd as that of the New testament with the Old.
- Whose book? Yours or V.V.’s? It doesn’t make sense.
- We’re supposed to be dealing with an intelligent reader, right? Otherwise, we might as well close up shop right now.
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ed. Despite being his own, it was a newfound experi-ence to hear it from a third party, especially his favor-ite writer who, obviously, was finding pleasure in its melody. There was no way; his salivary glands would definitely feed the oral cavity with abundant saliva. Reaching the end, he lifted his eyes from the text and, with his inimitable smile, gazed at him triumphantly, as if he had written it himself and, like right after a joke, was asking, “That’s a good one, isn’t it?” That’s it, he would start writing, Apostolis decided.”
That’s how (more or less, ok? It still needed a bit of legwork; For example, the tap tapping of her pumps might actually have been, aside from not audible at all, closer to a puff, puff, the term “female ” reminded you of a different era, “gazed at him triumphantly” was too pompous, while the phrase “an idea began to take shape and form in his brain” would likely make a neuroscientist freak out) his novel’s first paragraph would be Babis concluded as soon as Alexandra was out of sight and, strangely enough,
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