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of him, thought Babis unintentionally, fully immersed in writing mode) that he was doubtless drooling over some bimbo “from another planet” and cursing his luck that getting with someone like her would never be his lot. “Well, go on, take to the streets to look for her, hic Rhodus, hic salta22, you have my permission, because in the end, if there’s someone who deserves something better, if there’s someone who has the right to be angry at fate, it’s me,” she spouted in his face and, not before giving him more than a piece of her mind, disappeared forever.
22 Here is Rhodes, jump here, meaning that one has to prove what he can do, here and now. The phrase arises from an Ae-sop’s fable.
- It’s as if you are implying that women dunces when it comes to astronomy.
- Despite some women’s inclination to astrology, you know how far from me is such a thinking.
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Chapter 15
Babis was many things but not a lotus eater. He did not ignore the difficulties the whole exercise present-ed. Had he ever said publicly he’d be a writer? No. He had not even wholly admitted as much to himself, he had barely muttered that he would simply start to write. Yet, he wouldn’t tell a soul, not even that. As to the question of how Alexandra, whichever Alex-andra, had stood in his way, stopping him from do-ing so up to now, he would most likely remain mute. Because neither Elstat23 nor Eurostat maintained any statistics on all those who, though having the appe-tite and guts to write, never did so because of a fe-male presence. After all, while the writers who wrote something worthwhile, partly by not being account-able to any woman, who would either make their life a living hell or heaven, were not rare, those who had their own as a faithful supporter, tireless reader, lis-tener and editor, and to whom they sometimes owed, financially and psychologically, their very ability to write or those whose repulsion for married life, the hatred or envy towards their better half, her disgust
23 Hellenic statistical authority.
- Yes, but he doesn’t seem to give a toss that Alex-andra, and before that Lila, walked out on him.
- Of course he does, but part 2’s theme is writing, which partly constitutes
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