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Examples? I don’t know, like not capitaliz-ing Lola?
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to notice and misconstrue to his own detriment.
What if the slip-up, he thought in terror, was not in the content of the message but on the container? On the SMS itself, that is, regardless of what it actually said? In the medium, in other words, and not in the message? Because the medium was the message. And what did it say? That he was scared shitless to call her.
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Chapter 11
Babis, before he had even sent the SMS to her but also afterwards, was very much interested in anything that concerned her, and very concerned with what interest-ed her so if Google was a goldmine mainly for what-ever concerned her, Facebook had to be the Ali Baba cave for whatever primarily interested her. Surfing as soon as he got home, through the former, scrutiniz-ing it, he found out that she hadn’t been feeding him stories: she was indeed in the Human Resources man-agement team of a well-known multinational corpora-tion. He calculated her age based on how long it had been since she’d graduated from Panteion University. She was a lot older than he had originally thought, and, therefore, the age difference between them was far less abyssal than what he originally feared. That was something at least. Strange. She hadn’t deemed it necessary to mention that she had taken part in tango competitions, the Athens Marathon, or that she had a PhD, from the University of Chicago on the topic of “Ethical Altruism versus Rational Egoism, Lais-sez-Faire Capitalism and Individual Rights in Ayn Rand; A Meta-Ethical Approach.”
- What’s Babis doing dating someone working for a multinational corporation?
- Well, he’s thinking, maybe if I gave her a chance…you never know...
- Panteion University and working for a multi-national corporation doesn’t exactly pair up.
- You’re still stuck in the past when Panteion was a hub for rebels
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“What’s with this obsession with Ayn Rand!” he yelled, unable to restrain himself.
Lola’s Facebook wall belonged in the increasingly widespread category of Facebook walls that was any-thing but a Facebook wall. It was a dazibao15 political platform, manifesto, a brochure and credo all in one, with her every post being a position, an opposition, a proclamation, a flaunt, a demonstration, a perfor-mance, a cry of protest, a denunciation, sarcasm, libel, a striptease, an unmasking, a catfight, a pie in the face, but, most of all, a sign which either wanted to say
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