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class="CharOverride-6" style="position:absolute;top:6082.55px;left:4877.09px;letter-spacing:0px;">thanks to which he extracted the as-yet-unknown Nausicaa’s mobile number in the metro station, he had copied from Friends, his phone call to Dimitra he had unin-tentionally overheard on the bus, the scene where, in

49 Trotskyist and Maoist communist parties respectively, both opposed to pro-soviet GCP.

50 Known supermarkets chains in Greece.

I suggest the following footnote about MEGA: memorable channel which in those days dominated the audio-visual landscape, shaping both the ethics and the aesthetics of the public.

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his dream, he talks Ariadni into doing it in the shed, he had poached from Lady Chatterley’s Lover.

In other words what concrete evidence from Panopou-los’ life had Stergiou to cite? Not that much, most of it scattered in disarray and with no sulphur and phospho-rus. I.e. that, as a child, when he was not obsessively reading Μικρός ήρωας(Little Hero) he’d be mania-cally kicking the football in his neighbourhood’s va-cant lots, that he never got on well with ancient Greek grammar or differential equations (whence the con-clusion that as a student he was probably average, if not a dunce). That his language teacher had grown tired of repeating (but it was like talking to a brick wall) that there’s no such thing as a composition with no introduction, main part and conclusion. That on the November 17th of ’73 uprising at Athens Poly-technic51, he wasn’t even outside. That, in contrast, at the ’87 EuroBasket finals52 he was inside. Indirectly, Stergiou concluded that he had gone to middle school somewhere in Patisia and that before he settled down

51 The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurred in November 1973 as a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.

52 In the 1987 European Championship, Greece won its first Euro-pean title by defeating USSR.

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YPEXODE53 at Mesogeion Av. he had, by the skin of versity. From Apostolis’ indiscretions, he concluded that his moving from the sunless studio apartment in Acharnes to the two-bedroom in Galatsi54 took place at the exact time when his books had really sat com-fortably in the top ten bestsellers lists.

If nothing else, this evidence forever closed the mouths of all those who doubted the fact that he had indeed existed and had written all that had been written in his name and that of Panourgia’s, but they were not by any stretch of the imagination enough to complete, as Stergiou dreamed of, the puzzle of his

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