"The 'Stories That Came True' are the stories I wrote about the people I grew up with and to whom I owe a lot. The exaggeration that characterized their lives was my ticket back to their indefinite time."

Along with them, the voice of the great architect and poet Aristomenis Proveleggios can be heard through a conversation that was born from a story that was true. His confession ends with a whisper-invocation of the architect who discovers that his true home must be the poem.

To those who spread that some of my friends are dead, I remind them of the phrase by Jean-Michel Mansion: "Anyway, no one will come out of here alive." (G. K.)