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another. After that, of course, it’d be a damn mess picking and choosing. Most of them were dropped off the radar. Some got busted by his vice squad. Others got stuck by the Kokkinia Blockade27. Whichever ones survived, he’d push them forward by force to his text, no matter how crowded it was, the same way passengers are stuffed into the wagons by the personnel on the Tokyo subway. Other notes, if he were to read them somewhere else, were “burned” then and there like a secret agent whose name was leaked to the papers. Then again, when leafing through general in-terest magazines, every time he would chance upon his

27 When in August 1944 the Germans rounded up the entire male population of this popular neighbourhood of Piraeus in the square in order to identify and then execute over 200 resistance militants.

- I don’t know if it’s in our best interest in the present circumstances to be paraphrasing Putin.

- Putin said the shitter. And after all, if need be, I’ll draw my inspiration from the devil himself.

Which he never leafed through – tell the truth – unless he were in a medical practice waiting room.

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own inventions, of which he had been proud as punch, he would, like Darwin upon learning that the theory of natural selection had concurrently been discovered by some Wallace, get the shock of his life. Τo prevent that from happening again, he avoided any unnecessary reading, just as a sexually hyperactive person would postpone an HIV test so as to enjoy peace of mind.

His material? Anything immaterial. He gathered – as movie studios do – anything that looked interesting. Just in case. The irony was that instead of the script defining which, out of all of that, would be used, it was actually they that determined the script in the end. And just like it had never crossed well-known Lucy’s mind that, 3.2 million years after her death, her scat-tered bones would end up in the National Museum of Addis Ababa, how could anyone ever fathom that his or her scattered phrases, ideas, banter, observations, nonsense or absurdities would be transported in their entirety to the novels of some Babis guy? He would shrug off any accusations of plagiarism. On the con-trary. If there was something to be expected of a writ-er, it was to show in his work what he had ultimately retained in an entire lifetime.

His guideline? The opinions of critics, irrespective of the fact that, since not a single line of his had been print-

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