There are times when I seek those dense pathways of the mind, not so much to roll back as to understand all this emotional burden for a vast map that defines me. And within this map lie all that has shaped me and all that propels me forward.

The best moment is when time, the past and the future, converge in a moment, in an imperceptible vibration, known only to you, and this impression needs neither space nor light. It is born from the sense of a vast and rich vista that is not you, not by any means. You simply carry it; you are like the turtle that bears its shell, you are also a bit like a cave covered in skin and hair.

Excerpt from the book Memories, experiences, people, books, buildings… In this personal narrative, Nikos Vatopoulos unfolds a map through the flow of associative writing and leads us to an urban geography that is simultaneously a study of the cycles of time and the power of memory. He gradually composes an alternative vision of Athens in recent decades, with elements of biography, personal and urban, delivering us a hybrid chronicle.