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specific player is not just anyone but the one) that the ball will be shot right there – what other choice is he left with? To dive at random and come what may. And indeed, no one will laugh if he comes up empty, no one will bite his head off if he allows the goal in, a luxury that Stergiou sadly did not have, therefore, the mid-dle ground as the point of view from which he would analyse the life and times of Panopoulos was more imposed upon him than chosen consciously. Yet, there would come a time he would consider it imperative.

His compass and only support were, in the beginning, the following law which he instinctively discovered: that the more a writer rents his garments, purporting that his work hasn’t the slightest relevance to his own life, the more ironclad that connection becomes. In Panopoulos’ case, who on top of everything else had appeared as Panourgias for a time, the law fitted him like a glove. It seems, however, mind you, that he had got wind of that and, muddying the waters, unleashed his ink relentlessly, like a squid, something, though, it didn’t take long for Stergiou to get wind of, who, albeit a Humanities student, had retained one thing from Science: that reality only rarely corresponded to what common sense suggested. In fact, sometimes re-ality was to be found in the very opposite of it, some-

+ whereas everyone will have it in for the person taking the penalty if he misses it.

+ see geocentric theory.

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times neither in one nor the other. The same went for Panourgias, whose words Stergiou did not take at face value. The truth then, the existence of which he nevertheless didn’t doubt at all, would be sought, not