Asphyxia

by Tomazo Pagonis

Overview

Νεφέλη: Τώρα πια, μιλάω σε χρόνο παρενθετικό. Το παρελθόν, το παρόν και το μέλλον ζωντανεύουν σε μία οθόνη που έχω στήσει στο πίσω μέρος του μυαλού μου. Είναι μία μεγάλη, λευκή κινηματογραφική οθόνη. Μπροστά της κάθομαι εγώ. Είμαι η μηχανή προβολής. Προβάλω τα γεγονότα που θέλω και τα επεξεργάζομαι. Επιβραδύνω ή επιταχύνω τα τεκτενόμενα κατά βούληση. Παρακολουθώ την ίδια μου την ζωή σαν θεατής και κριτικάρω όποιον θέλω. Αλλά, δεν μπορώ να επέμβω στην πλοκή. Οι ήρωες της ζωής μου δεν δίνουν σημασία πλέον. Κάποτε, δεν έκαναν τίποτα δίχως την δική μου συμβολή. Τώρα, πράττουν δίχως βούληση, όσα στο παρελθόν οδηγήθηκαν να πράξουν. Ακόμα και εγώ η ίδια, δεν είμαι παρά ένας, ελεγχόμενος, ήρωας του σεναρίου της ζωής μου.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940167686854
Publisher:	Tomazo Pagonis
Publication date:	02/19/2024
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	790 KB
Language:	Greek, Modern (1453- )

About the Author

A Few Words About Tommaso Pagonis, by one of his novel characters

Tomazo Pagonis was born in the early 1960s in Piraeus. He studied shipping in London and has since hired himself as a negotiator of maritime contracts (also known as “shipbroker”), occasionally as a small-scale shipowner, and often as a ship manager. He has a fondness for anything or anyone that manages to “float”… carrying the weight of some kind of “cargo,” often called “the goods.”
He claims his hobbies include travelling and studying of what he calls “the scrapyards of the mind and nature.” Or so he says…

Every morning, he spends two or three hours writing and studying, then works to make a living. In the evenings, he usually destroys canvases and oil paints, even though he knows perfectly well that he doesn’t know how to paint.

Despite all this, a few of his short stories—written, I suppose, to avoid taking Lexotanil—have been published over the years. In 2010, his play titled “Tomorrow Again” was performed at the Alma Theatre.

P.S.
Once, I asked him what he meant by “the scrapyards of the mind and nature.” I thought he had something profound in mind, but he took the chance to deliver an entire lecture.
He explained that the mind creates ideas and builds theories, but eventually, they end up in scrapyards where they are dismantled and reassembled into new, possibly more advanced, theories. Something like that...

Zephyro Tramontana
(Main character in Thomas's novel "the Stranger")