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>of his or her skills), as long as they are sending the ball where you’d expect them to, the more you do your absolute best to match them. But if instead their game is com-pletely half-assed and has you constantly chasing af-ter the ball where you least expect it, out of courtesy, if nothing else, you end up imitating them to the point where an observer would wonder whether you’re that same player whose game, under different circumstanc-es, used to be “pure art”. He suspected that there was a biological explanation to the phenomenon, having recently read about the milestone discovery of mirror

Basta with that old chestnut.

- Here we go again with tennis.

- But it’s been democratised, get with the times, and after all, table tennis isn’t suitable for litera-ture due to smaller range of movement.

Simos Panopoulos - Look at that

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neurons and their role in imitation learning. If the lit-tle monkey learns how to peel the banana by watching its mother do it first, it owes it to those same mirror neurons. The problem possibly rested with both imi-tator and imitated, therefore, if a social get-together, romantic or not, went completely south.

And, boy, had this specific one gone downhill alright. First of all, it had started with the worst of omens. The seemingly innocent phrase “I am looking for a man who shares my interests” on her profile (even if by “interests” she didn’t actually mean the material ones), negatively predisposed him as much as she didn’t elaborate on them. As did her quirk of saying poleos (πόλεως) instead of polis (πόλης)8 that made her sound, at the very least, rather right-wing. Even more alarming was the fact that, in stark contrast to Aphrodite who nagged him to meet up as early as pos-sible so they could get it over and done with, which they did that very morning, Penelope that’s what this one was called had practically made him jump through hoops to get her to agree to the date. There

8 In Greek there are two ways of saying the same thing, town(πόλη) in the example above, the one being the archaic form (katharevousa) and the other the vernacular (demotic), forms whose choice finally end up denoting their users’ politi-cal views.

- What does Babis care? He’s looking for a date, anyway.

- Oh, he cares, all right.

Idea: Something that for Babis was the equivalent of, talking about colonels’ dictatorship and their coup d’état, saying instead The Seven Years

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