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style="position:absolute;top:2682.71px;left:1651.89px;">to tell you that Simos Panourgias is none other than myself, what would you say to that?”

“Well, do you know what I’ve thinking all this time that we’ve been talking? That your manner and build remind me of Apostolis, from Look at that. But, heav-ens, no, not Panourgias. Let’s not get crazy. I imagine him being completely different, how do I describe this to you? Much more imposing in any case and much surer of himself. Airier,” she added without defin-ing it, accompanying her words with a yawn that she didn’t even bother to cover with her palm. Its timing alone made it more eloquent than any of her words, let alone the fact that within seconds she started reading again. Her goal, before they landed, was undoubtedly to “wrap up” the chapter. They didn’t exchange any other words. It was a common practice completely acceptable in a passenger aircraft cabin. The email

-There is a Greek word for timing.

-No, it’s too clunky.

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which gave his publisher the permission to proceed – that’s how he put it – with the removal of his anonym-ity (that’s how he put it), Babis composed it during the remainder of the flight. He avoided exposing the reasons behind it. As soon as they landed, he sent it to him. Let him think whatever he wanted (he thought).

- It’s not clear to everyone why he does it.

- Only if one is an extra-terrestrial.

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Chapter 24

Carrots in palaeontology are cylindrical samples of subsoil obtained by drilling, thanks to which conclu-sions can be deduced regarding the conditions of life that were prevalent during the x, y or z period of time on Earth. That’s how, let’s say, it was discovered that at no point in time in its entire history was the concen-tration of carbon dioxide higher than it is nowadays, or that the cause for the extinction of the dinosaurs towards the end of the Cretaceous period, sixty-five million years before, was the impact from a meteor striking its surface. One such carrot is what the stu-dent of the Faculty of Philosophy43 in Athens Univer-sity, Stergiou, dreamed of as well. It was not however the works and the days of our planet he had a burn-ing desire to know, but those of a shooting star of the Greek letters, Babis Panopoulos, otherwise known as Simos Panourgias. What wouldn’t he give to unravel the underlying reason why, while he had reached the pinnacle of his glory sometime in the beginning of the century, he unexpectedly dropped under the public’s

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