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THE GORGON Andreas
Karkavitsas
Translated from the Greek
by Vassilis
Manoussakis (Athens, 1972). Poet,
short-story writer, translator. He holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary American
Poetry. He currently teaches at the Hellenic American University in Athens. I WAS
SAILING amidst sea with the brig of captain Farasis that night. What an
exquisite night! The first and last, I think, in my life. What did we have
loaded in the hold? What else but wheat. Where were we going? Where else but
the port of Piraeus. These two things, I had already done at least twenty
times. That very night, though, I was feeling such a burden on my soul, that
I thought I was going to faint. I didn’t know what was wrong with me; perhaps
it was the serene seas, perhaps the unclouded sky, perhaps the biting sun; I
could not tell. But my soul was so heavy and I found life so pointless, that
if someone grabbed me and threw me in the water, I wouldn’t say no.
The sun had already set now. The gold and crimson little clouds, accompanying
the sunset, were stopped on their tracks and turned black, like the big
black-rust. The evening star looked as shiny as the crystal snow in the dark.
The constellations appeared high up in the sky one by one. The waters had
acquired that dark white colour, the cold but desirable of the steel. The
young sailor turned the lanterns on; the captain went downstairs to sleep;
Bulberis sat on the wheel. Brahamis, our dog, crawled up at the base of
capstan to get some sleep. I
couldn’t rest at all. Neither did sleep nor stay awake. I tried to make small
talk with the helmsman; but the talk was so tasteless, that it was
extinguished like fire lit with green wood. I tried to play with Brahamis;
but the dog stuck its muzzle between its feet even more and it growled as if
it was bored, as if it was saying: Leave me alone! I don’t want your games!
Then, bored as I was myself, I went and lay with my face down in the middle
of the deck and covered my eyes with my hand. I wanted to see nothing, to
lose the feeling of life. And gradually I succeeded. I felt a spark of life
inside me, like a dim lampion and my body started becoming one and get
embedded in the lifeless wooden boards of the deck.
I do not know how long I stayed in this position. I cannot remember whether I
had any thoughts. All of a sudden, though, I started shivering; as if some
kind of magnet was stimulating my nerves, like the humidity which forces the
birds into twittering. And immediately a crimson wave poured all over me. I
thought I was drowning in blood. And as the sleeping man in a dark room
immediately awakes in the bright light of day, I too opened my eyes. I opened
or closed them, I can’t remember. I only remember that I stayed still. My
first thought was that I had woken up in the belly of a fish, which swallowed
our boat. But it wasn’t a fish. The sky was still above and the sea below.
Everything, though, above and below were covered with a bright red wavy
garment, painting with a pleasant light even the kelson of our boat.
Somewhere at the edge of the world, a fire was exploding its heat high up in
the sky and was spreading its horrible crying around. But, where was the
crying and where was its smoke? Both were missing.
In the depths of northern wind, an amaranthine cloud reached and covered the
stars in light blue colour and hidden them inside its thick head cover. And
an arch spread white and yellow and poured dark and green rivers amidst the
sky, and also golden red and blue, as if it wanted to paint the firmament.
The arch, moving like a windblown curtain, was blowing the fringes forward,
spreading its gossamery lace and proceeding, just like the flood proceeds and
covers a sandy beach with foam and tongues of water. The airy rivers were
running fast, swelling and flowing always dark or green, golden red or blue,
glowing like electricity in fat and unexpended rays. The sea was still,
reflecting all those colours that looked surprised within the bright glow.
But I myself was more surprised. I did not know what to do and what to think.
It is the end of the world, I said to myself. Such an end, though, could
satisfy everyone. The Earth is willing to die in the rosy waves!
I was suddenly startled. Deep down, from within the violet-coloured cloud, I
saw a gigantic shadow appearing. A big body and the towering head looked like
the Holy Mountain. Its two eyes were throwing bright circles and gazed
proudly at the World before they kick it into doom. There he is, I said, the
God-sent angel, the destroyer and saviour! I was watching him and my soul was
trembling. I was anticipating the terrible blow to fall like a hammer on the
world. There goes the Earth with its fruit, there also goes the sea with its
wood! No more songs, no more travels, no more kisses!
But I
did not hear the blow. The shadow was walking the waters with fiery leaps.
And the faster it walked, the smaller its body got. And suddenly the terrible
huge body was turned into a woman of immense beauty standing before me. She
was wearing a diamond crown on her head and her lush hair was falling blue on
her back and touching the waves. The wide forehead, the almond shaped eyes,
the coral lips were sending forth an immortality glow and a regal pride. From
her crystal neck a golden scaly armour was hung and in her left hand she was
holding a shield and in her right, a Macedonian sarisa spear.
I had
not recovered from my scare and I heard a voice sweet, soft and calm asking:
— Sailor, oh good sailor, is King Alexander alive?
King Alexander! I whispered even more surprised. How is it possible for king
Alexander to be alive? I didn’t know what kind of question it was and what to
reply, when the voice asked again:
— Sailor, oh good sailor, is King Alexander alive?
— Now, my lady! I replied without even thinking. Now, King Alexander! Not
even the soil that covered him is on this earth anymore.
Alas! What disaster befell upon me! .
The gorgeous woman turned immediately into an abomination. A cyclops emerged
from the water showing its scaly half body. The silky hair turned into live
snakes, which rose in the air, stuck out their tongues and their poisonous
stings and started hissing terribly. The armoured chest and the virgin face
changed right away and she looked like the One-breast monster woman from the
fairy tale. Now I realized who was standing before me! It was the Great
Ripper of the Earth, the destroyer and saviour angel. It was the Gorgon,
Alexander’s sister, who stole the water of immortality and was scouring the
seas alive and almighty. She was the Glory of the great conqueror and
emperor, untouched by time and eternal in both land and sea. And only for her
coming, did the Pole poured its glow, so as to fill her ether with colour
purple. She wasn’t of course asking about the mortal body, but about the
memory of her master. And now, in my uninformed reply she furiously darted a
bushy and heavy hand on the railing, she waved her tail and showed the ocean.
.
— No, my lady, I lied! I cried with shaking knees.
She gave me a stern look and she asked again with a shaky voice:
— Sailor, oh good sailor, is King Alexander alive?
— He lives, he is lord, and dominates the whole world. . She heard my
kind words. As if my voice became the water of immortality and poured through
her veins, she was immediately transformed into a gorgeous virgin. She raised
her lily white hand from the railing and smiled, spreading rose petals
through her lips. And suddenly in the purple air a war song started booming,
as if the Macedonian army was returning from the lands of the Ganges and the
Euphrates river.
I lifted my eyes and I saw the airy rivers, the dark and green, the golden
red and blue, meet high up in the sky and form a gigantic crown. Was it a
weather phenomenon or was it a reply to the question of the immortal? Who
knows? But slowly the rays started dimming and fade away one after another,
as if the Gorgon was taking their beauty into the abyss with her. Now, neither crown nor arch could be seen
anywhere. Some scattered clouds only, ash grey and pale, and inside my soul,
dim and faded, the blood red of my homeland.
I was sailing amidst sea with the brig of captain Farasis that night. Source: From the short story collection Words
from the Bow, Nefeli editions, 1991. 1st edition: Athens,
1899. See also: |
H ΓΟΡΓΟΝΑ
Ανδρέας
Καρκαβίτσας
MΕ ΤΟ ΜΠΡΙΚΙ τοῦ Καπετὰν Φαράση
ἀρμένιζα μισοκάναλα ἐκείνη τὴ νύχτα. Σπάνια νύχτα! πρώτη καὶ τελευταία
θαρρῶ στὴ ζωή μου. Τί εἴχαμε φορτωμένο; Τί ἄλλο ἀπὸ σιτάρι. Ποῦ πηγαίναμε;
Ποῦ ἀλλοῦ ἀπὸ τὸν Πειραιᾶ. Πράματα καὶ τὰ δυὸ ποὺ τὰ ἔκαμα τὸ λιγώτερο
εἴκοσι φορές. Μὰ ἐκείνη τὴ βραδυὰ ἔνιωθα τέτοιο πλάκωμα στὴν ψυχή,
ποὺ κιντύνευα νὰ λιγοθυμήσω. Δὲν ξέρω τί μοῦ ἔφταιγε· θὲς ἡ γαληνεμένη
θάλασσα, θὲς ὁ ξάστερος οὐρανός, θὲς τὸ τσουχτερὸ λιοπύρι· δὲν μπορῶ
νὰ εἰπῶ. Μὰ εἶχα τόσο βαρειὰ τὴν ψυχή, ἥβρεσκα τόσο σαχλοπλημμυρισμένη
τὴ ζωή, ποὺ ἂν μὲ ἅρπαζε κανεὶς νὰ μὲ ρίξη στὸ νερό, «ὄχι!» δὲ θά ‘λεγα.
Ὁ ἥλιος ἦταν ὥρα βασιλεμένος. Τὰ χρυσοπόρφυρα συγνεφάκια, ποὺ
συντρόφευαν τὸ βασίλεμά του, σκάλωσαν κάπου μαῦρα σὰν μεγάλες καπνιές.
Ὁ Ἀποσπερίτης ἔλαμψε κρυσταλλόχιονο μέσα στὰ σκοῦρα. Φάνηκαν
ψηλὰ οἱ ἀστερισμοὶ ἕνας κι ἕνας. Τὰ νερά κάτω πῆραν ἐκεῖνο τὸ λευκοσκότεινο
χρῶμα, τὸ κρύο καὶ λαχταριστὸ τοῦ ἀτσαλιοῦ. Τὸ ναυτόπουλο ἄναψε
τὰ φανάρια· ὁ καπετάνιος κατέβηκε νὰ κοιμηθῆ· ὁ Μπούλμπερης ἔκατσε
στὸ τιμόνι. Ὁ Μπραχάμης, ὁ σκύλος μας, κουλουριάστηκε στὴ ρίζα τοῦ
ἀργάτη νὰ ἡσυχάση καὶ κεῖνος. Ἐγὼ οὔτε
νὰ ἡσυχάσω μποροῦσα. Οὔτε ὕπνο οὔτε ξύπνο. Δοκίμασα νὰ πιάσω κουβέντα
μὲ τὸν τιμονιέρη· μὰ εἶχε τόση ἀνοστιά, ποὺ ἔσβησε σὰν φωτιὰ ἀναμμένη
μὲ χλωρόξυλα. Πῆγα νὰ παίξω μὲ τὸν Μπραχάμη· ἀλλὰ καὶ κεῖνος τρύπωσε
ἀκόμη περισσότερο τὸ μουσούδι στὰ πόδια του καὶ βαριεστισμένος
γρίνιασε, σὰ νὰ μοῦ ἔλεγε: —Ἄφησέ με καὶ δὲν ἔχω τὴν ὄρεξή σου! Τότε
βαριεστισμένος καὶ γὼ πῆγα καὶ ξαπλώθηκα μπρούμυτα καταμεσὶς κι
ἔκλεισα στὴ χούφτα τὰ μάτια μου. Ἤθελα νὰ μὴ βλέπω τίποτα, νὰ μὴν αἰσθάνομαι
πὼς ζῶ. Καὶ λίγο-λίγο σχεδὸν τὸ κατόρθωσα. Κάτι ἐλάχιστο, σὰν θαμπὸ
καντηλάκι, ἔνιωθα νὰ ζῆ μέσα μου καὶ γύρω τὸ κορμί μου νὰ σμίγη καὶ
νὰ χωνεύη μέσα στ’ ἀναίσθητα σανίδια τῆς κουβέρτας. Πόσο ἔμεινα
ἔτσι, δὲν ξέρω. Τί μοῦ ἦρθε στὸ νοῦ κι ἂν μοῦ ἦρθε τίποτα, δὲ θυμοῦμαι.
Ἄξαφνα ὅμως ἄρχισα ν’ ἀνατριχιάζω· σὰν κάποιος μαγνήτης νὰ ἐρέθιζε
τὰ νεῦρα μου, ὅπως ἡ ὑγρασία ἀναγκάζει τὰ πουλιὰ στὸ φλυάρισμα.
Κι εὐθὺς πορφυρὸ κῦμα χύθηκε ἀπάνω μου. Πίστεψα πὼς κολυμποῦσα
στὰ αἵματα. Καὶ ὅπως ὁ κοιμάμενος σὲ σκοτεινό δωμάτιο αὐτόματα
ξυπνᾶ στὸ λαμπρὸ φῶς τῆς ἡμέρας, καὶ γὼ ἄνοιξα τὰ μάτια μου. Τ’ ἄνοιξα
ἢ τά ’κλεισα, δὲ θυμοῦμαι. Θυμοῦμαι μόνο πὼς ἔμεινα ἀκίνητος. Πρώτη
μου σκέψη ἦταν πὼς ξύπνησα στὸ στομάχι κάποιου ψαριοῦ, ποὺ ρούφηξε
τὸ καράβι μας. Καὶ ὅμως δὲν ἦταν στομάχι ψαριοῦ. Ἦταν ὁ οὐρανὸς ψηλὰ
καὶ κάτω ἡ θάλασσα. Μὰ ὅλα, ψηλὰ καὶ χαμηλά, στρωμένα ἦταν μὲ ροῦχο
κατακόκκινο, κυματιστό, ποὺ ἔβαφε μὲ ἁβρὸ φεγγοβόλημα ὣς καὶ τὸ
σωτρόπι τῆς σκάφης μας. Κάπου στὰ πέρατα τῆς γῆς πυρκαγιὰ τίναζε τὴ
λαμπάδα της ψηλά κι ἔρριχνε φοβεροὺς ἀποκλαμοὺς περαδῶθε. Μὰ ποῦ
τὸ κάμα καὶ ποῦ ἡ ἀθάλη της; Καὶ τὰ δυὸ ἔλειπαν. Κάτω στὰ βάθη
τοῦ βοριᾶ κάποιο μενεξεδένιο σύγνεφο ἅπλωσε καὶ τύλιξε γαλαζόχρωμα
τ’ ἀστέρια, τὰ ἔκρυψε κάτω ἀπὸ τὸ πυκνὸ μαγνάδι του. Καὶ παραπάνω
τόξο ἁπλώθηκε λευκοκίτρινο κι ἔχυσε μεσούρανα ποτάμια σκοτεινὰ
καὶ ποτάμια πράσινα, χρυσορόδινα καὶ γλαυκά, λὲς καὶ ἤθελε νὰ βάψη
τὸ στερέωμα. Καὶ τὸ τόξο, κινητὸ σὰν ἀνεμόδαρτο παραπέτασμα,
κουνοῦσε τὰ κρόσσια ἐμπρός, ἅπλωνε τὶς ἀραχνοΰφαντες δαντέλλες
του καὶ πρόβαινε, ὅπως ἡ πλημμύρα προβαίνει καὶ σκεπάζει μὲ ἀφροὺς
καὶ γλῶσσες τὴν ἀμμουδιά. Τ’ ἀέρινα ποτάμια ἔτρεχαν γοργὰ καὶ φούσκωναν
καὶ κυλοῦσαν πάντα σκοτεινὰ ἢ πράσινα, χρυσορόδινα ἢ γλαυκά, καὶ
σκόρπιζαν ἀντιφεγγίσματα ὁλοῦθε σὰν ἠλεκτρικοῦ προβολὲς χοντρὲς
καὶ ἀδαπάνητες. Ἡ θάλασσα ἀκίνητη ἀντανακλοῦσε τὰ τόσα χρώματα
καὶ φαίνονταν ὅλα ξαφνισμένα μέσα στὴν τόση λάμψη. Μὰ περισσότερο
ξαφνισμένος ἤμουν ἐγώ. Δὲν ἤξερα τί νὰ κάμω καὶ τί νὰ συλλογιστῶ.
Ἔφτασε, εἶπα, τοῦ κόσμου ἡ συντέλεια. Τέτοια ὅμως συντέλεια μποροῦσε
νὰ εὐχαριστήση τὸν καθένα. Ἡ Γῆ βούλεται νὰ πεθάνη μέσα στὰ ροδοκύματα!... Ἄξαφνα ἀνατρόμαξα.
Κάτω βαθιά, μέσ’ ἀπὸ τὸ μενεξεδένιο σύγνεφο, εἶδα νὰ προβαίνη ἴσκιος
πελώριος. Ἡ χοντρὴ κορμοστασιά, τὸ πυργογύριστο κεφάλι του φάνταζαν
Ἁγιονόρος. Τὰ δυό του μάτια γύριζαν φωτεινοὺς κύκλους κι ἔβλεπαν
περήφανα τὸν Κόσμο πρὶν τὸν κλωτσήσουν στὴν καταστροφή. Νά τος, εἶπα,
ὁ θεόσταλτος ἄγγελος, ὁ χαλαστὴς καὶ σωτήρας! Τὸν ἔβλεπα κι εἶχα
σύγκρυο στὴν ψυχή. Ἀπὸ στιγμὴ σὲ στιγμὴ πρόσμενα σφυρὶ νὰ πέση τὸ
φριχτὸ χτύπημα. Πάει τώρα ἡ Γῆ μὲ τοὺς καρπούς, πάει κι ἡ θάλασσα μὲ
τὰ ξύλα της! Οὔτε τραγούδια πλιό, οὔτε ταξίδια, οὔτε φιλιά! Ἀλλὰ δὲν ἄκουσα
τὸ χτύπημα. Ὁ ἴσκιος πρόβαινε στὰ νερὰ μὲ ἅλματα πύρινα. Κι ὅσο
γρηγορώτερα πρόβαινε, τόσο μίκραινε ἡ κορμοστασιά του. Καὶ ἄξαφνα
ὁ θεότρομος ὄγκος χιλιόμορφη κόρη στάθηκε ἀντίκρυ μου. Διαμαντοστόλιστη
κορώνα φοροῦσε στὸ κεφάλι καὶ τὰ πλούσια μαλλιὰ γαλάζια χήτη ἅπλωναν
στὶς πλάτες ὣς κάτω στὰ κύματα. Τὸ πλατὺ μέτωπο, τ’ ἀμυγδαλωτὰ μάτια,
τὰ χείλη της τὰ κοραλλένια ἔχυναν γύρα κάποια λάμψη ἀθανασίας
καὶ κάποια περηφάνεια βασιλική. Ἀπὸ τὰ κρυσταλλένια λαιμοτράχηλα
κατέβαινε κι ἔσφιγγε τὸ κορμί ὁλόχρυσος θώρακας λεπιδωτός καὶ
πρόβαλε στὸ ἀριστερὸ τὴν ἀσπίδα κι ἔπαιζε στὸ δεξὶ τὴ Μακεδονικὴ
σάρισα. Δὲν εἶχα
συνέρθει ἀπὸ τὴν ἀπορία καὶ φωνὴ γλυκειά, ἤρεμη καὶ μαλακὴ ἄκουσα
νὰ μοῦ λέη: —Ναύτη –
καλεναύτη· ζῆ ὁ βασιλιᾶς Ἀλέξαντρος; Ὁ βασιλιᾶς Ἀλέξαντρος!
Ψιθύρισα μὲ περισσότερη ἀπορία. Πῶς εἶναι δυνατὸ νὰ ζῆ ὁ βασιλιᾶς
Ἀλέξαντρος; Δὲν ἤξερα τί ρώτημα ἦταν ἐκεῖνο καὶ τί νὰ τῆς ἀποκριθῶ,
ὅταν ἡ φωνὴ ξαναδευτέρωσε: —Ναύτη –
καλεναύτη· ζῆ ὁ βασιλιᾶς Ἀλέξαντρος; —Τώρα, Κυρά
μου! ἀπάντησα χωρὶς νὰ σκεφτῶ. Τώρα βασιλιᾶς Ἀλέξαντρος! Οὔτε τὸ
χῶμα του δὲ βρίσκεται στὴ γῆ. Ὠιμέ! κακὸ ποὺ τό ‘παθα! Ἡ χιλιόμορφη κόρη ἔγινε μεμιᾶς φοβερὸ
σίχαμα. Κύκλωπας βγῆκε ἀπὸ τὸ κῦμα κι ἔδειξε λεπιοντυμένο τὸ μισὸ
κορμί. Ζωντανὰ φίδια τὰ μεταξόμαλλα σηκώθηκαν περαδῶθε, ἔβγαλαν
γλῶσσες καὶ κεντριὰ φαρμακερὰ κι ἔχυσαν φοβεριστικὸ ἀνεμοφύσημα.
Τὸ θωρακωτὸ στῆθος καὶ τὸ παρθενικὸ πρόσωπο ἄλλαξαν ἀμέσως σὰ νὰ
ἦταν ἡ Μονοβύζω τοῦ παραμυθιοῦ. Τώρα καλογνώρισα μὲ ποιὸν εἶχα
νὰ κάμω! Δὲν ἦταν ὁ Χάρος τῆς Γῆς, ὁ χαλαστὴς καὶ σωτήρας ἄγγελος. Ἦταν
ἡ Γοργόνα, τ’ Ἀλέξαντρου ἡ ἀδερφή, ποὺ ἔκλεψε τ’ ἀθάνατο νερὸ
καὶ γύριζε ζωντανὴ καὶ παντοδύναμη. Ἡ Δόξα ἦταν τοῦ μεγάλου κοσμοκράτορα,
ἀγέραστη κι αἰώνια σὲ στεριὰ καὶ θάλασσα. Καὶ μόνο γιὰ Κείνης τὸν
ἐρχομὸ ἔχυσε ὁ Πόλος τὸ Σέλας του, νὰ στρώση τὸν ἀθέρα της μὲ τῆς
πορφύρας τὸ χρῶμα. Δὲ ρωτοῦσε βέβαια γιὰ τὸ φθαρτὸ σῶμα, ἀλλὰ γιὰ
τὴ μνήμη τοῦ ἀφέντη της. Καὶ τώρα στὴν ἄκριτή μου ἀπόκριση μανιασμένη
ἔρριξε τὸ χέρι, ἕνα δασοτριχωμένο καὶ βαρὺ χέρι στὴν κουπαστή, ἔπαιξε
ζερβόδεξα τὴν οὐρά της κι ἔδειξε Ὠκεανὸ τὸν μαλακὸ Πόντο. —Ὄχι, Κυρά,
ψέματα!... τρανοφώναξα μὲ λυμένα γόνατα. Ἐκείνη μὲ
κοίταξε αὐστηρὰ καὶ μὲ φωνὴ τρεμάμενη ξαναρώτησε: —Ναύτη –
καλεναύτη· ζῆ ὁ βασιλιᾶς Ἀλέξαντρος; —Ζῆ καὶ βασιλεύει·
ἀπάντησα εὐθύς. Ζῆ καὶ βασιλεύει καὶ τὸν κόσμο κυριεύει. Ἄκουσε τὰ λόγια
μου καλά. Σὰ νὰ χύθηκε ἀθάνατο νερὸ ἡ φωνή μου στὶς φλέβες της, ἄλλαξε
ἀμέσως τὸ τέρας κι ἔλαμψε παρθένα πάλι χιλιόμορφη. Σήκωσε τὸ
κρινάτο χέρι της ἀπὸ τὴν κουπαστή, χαμογέλασε ροδόφυλλα σκορπώντας
ἀπὸ τὰ χείλη της. Καὶ ἄξαφνα στὸν ὁλοπόρφυρον ἀέρα χύθηκε τραγούδι
πολεμικό, λὲς καὶ γύριζε τώρα ὁ Μακεδονικὸς στρατὸς ἀπὸ τὶς χῶρες
τοῦ Γάγγη καὶ τοῦ Εὐφράτη. Σήκωσα τὰ
μάτια ψηλὰ καὶ εἶδα τ’ ἀέρινα ποτάμια, τὰ σκοτεινὰ καὶ τὰ πράσινα,
τὰ χρυσορόδινα καὶ τὰ γλαυκά, νὰ σμίγουν στὸν οὐρανὸ καὶ νὰ κάνουν
Στέμμα γιγάντιο. Ἦταν κάμωμα τοῦ καιροῦ ἢ μὴν ἦταν ἀπόκριση στὸ ρώτημα
τῆς ἀθάνατης; Ποιὸς ξέρει. Μὰ σιγὰ-σιγὰ οἱ ἀχτῖνες ἄρχισαν νὰ θαμπώνουν
καὶ νὰ σβήνουν μιὰ μὲ τὴν ἄλλη, λὲς κι ἔπαιρνε τὰ κάλλη μαζί της ἡ Γοργόνα
στὴν ἄβυσσο. Τώρα οὔτε
Στέμμα οὔτε Τόξο φαινόταν πουθενά. Κάπου-κάπου σκόρπια σύγνεφα ἔμεναν
σταχτιὰ καὶ κάτωχρα· καὶ μέσα στὴν ψυχή μου θαμπὴ καὶ ξέθωρη ἡ πορφύρα
τῆς πατρίδας μου. Μὲ τὸ μπρίκι
τοῦ καπετὰν Φαράση ἀρμένιζα μισοκάναλα ἐκείνη τὴ νύχτα. Πηγή: Ἀπὸ τὴν συλλογὴ
διηγημάτων Λόγια τῆς Πλώρης, Ἐκδόσεις Νεφέλη, 1991. Πρώτη
ἔκδοση: Ἀθήνα, 1899.
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