Quiet night... The sky was full of stars. And at the corner of the street, someone had been playing the harmonica since early on. Two crows, perched in an old cypress tree, were staying up late decorating their nests with colorful glass pieces they had gathered from the trash.
“...What are those people down there doing, instead of decorating their nests, they're always rushing... What are they looking for...” one asked, while carefully cleaning the neck of a broken bottle. “Ah! They are looking for the missing piece of their souls. And they run. And they stick whatever they find in its place trying to imitate the image they dreamed of. And they always find something mismatched. That doesn't fit. And the image gets more and more distorted. And the dream keeps slipping away. That’s how people are. Don’t get involved.”
“And that one over there... playing the harmonica in the corner for so long.” “Leave him be. He’s plucking at his dream and feeding the dogs. Leave him be... He might know something more... but no one will ever ask him.”
Quiet night. The sky was full of stars. And there, at the corner of the street, someone was continuously playing the harmonica…
Manufacturer
- Author
- Alkyoni Papadaki
- Publisher
- Dioptra
- Publishers
- Dioptra
- Type
- Prose
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 440
- Release Date
- 11/2022
- Publication Date
- 2022
- Dimensions
- 14x20.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786182200360
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