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id="_idTextSpan8462" >felt duly entitled to, he understood them perfectly well. They had obviously, like himself, much better things to do than waste their time looking at profiles whose neurotic owners did not even manage to in-clude any pictures.

He had, therefore, no other choice but to let loose on all of their profiles in order to inform all those female entities of the site who he had a crush on that a) he existed and b) there were no technical obstacles, ei-ther to their desire to get in touch with him at any given moment, nor to his readiness to respond. Nev-ertheless, that would only prove to be meaningful if a) he upgraded to a golden membership and b) upload-ed pictures on his profile. And yes, he was taking a risk, but, in the dire situation he was in, to not risk to risk and so get cut off from that large family of both those with photos and those would could not bear the thought of uploading them was an even greater risk,

3 Εμπάθεια (empatheia): malevolence, is in Greek the exact opposite of empathy in English.

+ like the biblical, “Instead of manna, you have given me gall, instead of water, vinegar”

Any synonyms of “to have a crush on”? You used it already.

Idea: “like the tennis player who’s used to playing from the base line and decides to come up to the net.”

- Ι wonder whether this word is compati-ble with serious literature

- Who told you a) I am doing literature and b) that it is serious?

Simos Panopoulos - Look at that

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one that he could not afford to take. After all, as it were, the photos did indeed play a very decisive role. And it was decisive because, to some extent, there was something fascist4 underlying the selection cri-teria and their selection as well. What else would you call being cast into the pit of disregard and contempt of hundreds of thousands of people whose only fault was a mediocre or hapless appearance, premature old age, a bit of a bald patch, a grey hair or two, a few ex-tra pounds, wrinkles and/or a double chin ? But even so, or rather because of that, was it not simply stupid to be deprived of their services? What did he have to worry about after all? That instead of joining forc-es with his profile description for the common good, they’d ruin everything with a mediocre or hapless ap-pearance, premature old age, a bit of a bald patch, a grey hair or two, a few extra pounds, wrinkles and/or a double chin? Was he going to gain anything

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