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comparison, won him over with its immediacy and freshness. It was therefore by no means worthless. All right, its weaknesses were abundant and obvious, but it had the gift of turning these into an advantage. How? He asserted them, adding insult to injury where most tried to brush them up under the carpet. Either way, he must have realised that the more he concealed them the more they’d re-appear, while, the more he exposed them himself, the more they protected him like a bulletproof vest. So then, with the purchase of his books you also got as a bonus offer, apart from their recipe, his public self-criticism. Stergiou was in fact first to claim that, basically, for Panopoulos things like critique, recipe, instruction manual and opus coincided. Text, context, and modus operandi in other words lived side by side in a sui generis mo-dus vivendi. Not having, unfortunately, any archives or correspondence to consult, publishers, journalists, relatives, friends, neighbours, spouses, girlfriends to interrogate, so as to trace Panopoulos from his life to his work, something that either way he considered to be a blow below the belt, he had no other recourse than to do it from work to life. A variation of reverse

OK. We got the idea you don’t want to give off the impression that you’re full of yourself.

The ones he could infer that is, because the rest…

+ in the logic of Churchill that “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”

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engineering46, that is. A variation, because the study of the object, in this case of the opus, aimed to de-fine not its internal workings and structure, but rather (those) of its originator.

And that’s exactly where things got sticky. The con-viction by many (questionable maybe, yet not so questioned) that all Panopoulos did was write his own autobiography, instead of helping, confused him. Just like a goalkeeper, who, seconds before the referee’s whistle and while the ball has been placed eleven me-tres away, is approached by a teammate who whispers in his ear about how his opponent (eyewitness of the scene, who is already pulling back for a running start) takes his penalty shots. Which side should he launch to, the goalkeeper wonders? The one that was pointed out to him, risking, if the shooter aimed for the oppo-site