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id="_idTextSpan30869" class="CharOverride-5" style="position:absolute;top:6252.63px;left:1844.16px;">of all the extra sauce in it, had be-come a bulky and slow-moving station wagon, along the way it shrank down into a nervous and flexible compact SUV28. The same went with each individual phrase. Whereas before they veered, solely in regards to their length, to be clear, towards Proust after the

28 SUV: sport utility vehicle.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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weight loss treatment, they sounded either like ma-chine gun fire, or as military communiqués. No won-der the relationship and attitude of the writer towards his writing was to be analysed in military terms. A relationship and attitude, that is, of an insensitive gen-eral towards a platoon of new recruits, which deeming as acceptable losses, he throws into a tactical battle, with the ultimate goal for whomever survives – by definition the most combat-ready ones – to fight the upcoming mother of all battles. Now, from a different viewpoint, the political one – given that as Clausewitz said, war is nothing but politics by different means –, Babis was applying to his own self nothing but the same classic trick of every government which, before putting forward a controversial bill, assesses the pub-lic opinion’s mood with leaked information and off-the-record statements in the press by public officials, as well as with commissioned polls.

What are we getting at? That before the slightest phrase established itself in his conscience, it first had to go through hell and high water and then traverse dire straits. No matter where it came from. But where did it really come from? Here’s what, at times, espe-cially on days of inspiration, rather intrigued Babis’ mind. Not like the one of a child, over where babies

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or Santa Claus came from, but that of a grownup who, after waking from a strange dream, mutters to his own self: “Damn ! Did I dream up all of that?”

+ or both wondering where do jokes come from.

“Look at that!” more like.

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Chapter 19

On that August morning and while the still, but also already, warm water of the beach shower doused him – still, because he was without a doubt the first to be having one, and already, despite the sun having risen only a short while earlier – if there was something that intrigued his mind straight after seeing her for the first time, it was whether she was actually heading towards him and if so, why?

Initially

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