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id="_idTextSpan52433" >company aboard the ship or at the beach, had stood by them at the hospi-tal, had been their sleeping pill at night. Who cared if by doing that they were digging his grave as a writer, Alexandratou had the nerve to observe, herself nev-er having missed a single premiere of a Woody Allen film, no matter how much the critics might have ‘slat-ed’ it, just because erstwhile she had been left feeling in awe by Manhattan. That’s about the time she places, with the accuracy of the method of radioactive isotope C-14, Kalambakas slipping into a type of writing that is seemingly identical to before, only now he does it on demand whereas before it was spontaneous.

Round about that time, she also dates his tendency towards carelessness. It is much more evident with restaurateurs. While, after the grand opening, they start with the best of intentions using fresh and pure

+ and therefore, the publishing houses.

Oh, please, who reads on a ship anymore? They’re all stuck to their smartphones.

It’s you doing that, more like, because the finale is approaching.

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ingredients in the food they serve the customer, cook-ing it slowly on a low fire, heating it on bain-marie, warning the customer that the sea bream is not fresh out the sea but rather straight off the hatchery, treating him to tsipouro60 and halva61, well, it’s only human nature after all, especially if the hype and brouhaha run wild, for them to eventually rest on their laurels, resorting more and more to frozen vegetables, Knorr stock cubes, canned dolma and microwaving.

A tendency that even the various institutions, clubs, academies that award him, trendy bookstores that in-vite him and reporters who interview him maintain and fuel but couldn’t care less. Nor would they, even if they had known how much they deprive him of his oxygen and his petrol of its octanes: of the uncertain-ty, the doubt, that is, of whether all that he writes is simply a load of rubbish and total nonsense. From the moment anything he writes is construed as intelligent or even brilliant, when the excited “oh my”, the ec-static “wow” far outweigh the reserved “look at that”, it all goes to his head. What was once a forgivable habit to sometimes act like a smart aleck, to infer the general from the specific, to deduce the specific out of the general, to decry social ills, to preach and

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Infer and deduce are already the general out of the specific and the specific out of

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