Fragments from an O [or The story of the Aye!]

To 'heis arage syllogistei pote
To stafyli tin wra pou se shimatizei o erwtas...

Deli xi-Deli, theleis en' theleis, zaten 'There Is Nothing But Trouble And Desire', o!, Aye! do not forget the --k-k-k-k-k[hole; opening], that whole opening of that Gaddisian punkt: "That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and it's work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything." , delikdesik delikanli, anamesa stis lexeis kai ta pramata, 'o'-!, the house of porosity, peircing 'Aimez Travaillez Et Soufrir', hwris ena stiho stegano, AM, Christe mou Insa(Allah), dioti 'Ypirhe apo tote to provlima', hey!, wait, a sec., sip, good. Now back-track: "H Athina itan poly pio omorfy tote. Itan methysmeni kai epieikis. Itan lagna. Itan kataprasini kai zesti san hnoto. Itan proswrini san louloudi....Itan mia poly poli pou horopidouse sto tsimento kai sto grasidi, apo therino tourismo se heimerino marasmo, ki apo anavoli se anavoli. Den katadehotan na dei to hali tis. Eihe girysei to proswpo ap' tin alli meria, pros tin Mikra Asia. O Basileus Gewrgios B' evale na kopsoun tous foinikes gia na moizoume me Evrwpi. Ypirhe apo tote to provlima." (Evgenios Aranitsis, Afriki, 1988: 19), enw "...(A)fti i hwra, i Agglia, itan mia ypothetiki efkairia gia asydoseis. To Londino me dektike amesws t' omologw - i zwi mou omws ekei itan epidermiki kai symvatiki. I vrohi kai i omihli me eihan potisei mehri to kokalo, eiha malakwsei, eiha ginei ena kommati laspis. Eplita sto epakro. Ypefera apo prowra girateia." (Ibid: 153), ah! ah! nai, Deli xi-Deli, delik, deli-k diha kapaman!

o[a]r

NA PROFEREIS TIN PRAGMATIKOTITA opws o spourgitis to harama.

Run amok, my cooking utensils!
"...[P]oised between construction and ruin, it 'errupts', it burst into discontinous transformation. Everything is in a continuous process of discontinuous transformation." Howard Caygill, Walter Benjamin, The Colour of Experience

Ploio diarkeias i hwra mou.

Etc(i):

Kemirici Ask ilahi - Kit'at

Perimenw tin wra pou ena
Perivoli eleitiko th' afomoiwsei
T' apovlita olwn twn aiwnwn - pou ena
Koritsi tha kyrixei sto swma tou epanastasi
Wraia me tremouliastes fwnes kai lampidones
Froutwn xanafernwntas tin istoria
Stin afetiria tis
(...)



Piase to PREPEI apo to iwta kai gdare to isame to pi.





["To ouiski, prepei na to pw, xodevotan me rythmo pio argo ap' oti to myalo, ena mpoukali ana dyo meres. Na methas einai to mono efkolo." E. Aranitsis, Ibid: 154]


Background Noise: 1
and 2;

Icon of St. George and the young man of Mytilene,
Mid-13th Century AD, Crusader (a western artist working in the Holy Land),
The Nationa Icon Collection, no. 13, Department of Medieval and Modern Europe, The British Museum

(Strepsate tin prosohi sas sto nearo Lesvio! - Lesvos is the capital of Mytilene and another name for the island (as well as a legendary 'Ouzeri-Kafe-Bar'!)


*All unregistered shots courtesy of Odysseas Elytis, O Mikros Naytilos, 1970-1974 , (1985).