The Man from Messagros
Jun. 20th, 2009 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Myth and mystery of the house at Messagros was a Click Opera entry I posted back in April, prompted by a film by Olaf Nicolai shown at the first Athens Biennial. Yesterday, chugging up and down the hills of Aegina on a rented Yamaha Neo's with Hisae clinging pillion, I found the house and saw it with my own eyes. Well, eye.It wasn't easy. The house is a ruin, located in a rather remote inner area of the island. We only found it because, at Messagros, I approached a young farm labourer and said "Rodakis House?" Luckily the man had heard of it, and signaled us to follow his pick-up truck.
We drove up to a family house, and here the farmer jumped onto a motorbike and again told us to follow him. We sped down a side-lane, then took another off it, then zoomed up a hill, and suddenly the derelict shape of the Rodakis house was on our left.
"Archeologos?" quizzed the man as he led us through the thistles, avoiding the bees, assailed by huge and vicious horse-flies. No, I said, just tourists.
The man made to leave us alone with the house. I tried to stuff a €5 note into his hand, but he protested "Ochi, ochi!" and said, as if in explanation: "I am from Messagros!"
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Date: 2009-06-20 03:08 pm (UTC)I guess you're lucky that he didn't suddenly flash a knife that glinted in the ferocious, enervating sun, as the heat boiled his brain and turned him mad with blood lust and blind hatred of those from northern climes and their fundamental sense of fairness, hypnotically driven to stain with red the extreme paleness of your exposed throat, Momus.
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Date: 2009-06-20 03:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-20 05:30 pm (UTC)A good word for young farm labourers.
Date: 2009-06-20 04:05 pm (UTC)Acropolis Museum
Date: 2009-06-20 04:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-20 06:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-20 11:46 pm (UTC)Momus curiously silent about Iran STOP
Date: 2009-06-20 08:10 pm (UTC)Escaping the tedious jackboot of Islam doesn't fit his world view STOP
People should repect the Other, usually being patriarchs in robes STOP
Re: Momus curiously silent about Iran STOP
Date: 2009-06-21 07:15 am (UTC)Re: Momus curiously silent about Iran STOP
Date: 2009-06-22 06:20 am (UTC)There's no revolution, just a minority group promoted by the United States. STOP.
A.K.A, "How to steal the elections, with a 30% vote and the right connections in world politics". STOP.
Iranian people don't want to "escape the tedious jackboot of Islam", that's what naive Americans are told (about the "jackboot" and about Iranian people). STOP.
The revolution won't be televised. STOP.
just tourists "Ochi, ochi!"
Date: 2009-06-21 04:04 am (UTC)How dystopian is Messagros?
Re: just tourists "Ochi, ochi!"
Date: 2009-06-21 08:09 am (UTC)Ruprecht
Date: 2009-06-21 06:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-21 07:37 am (UTC)RE:Beardless Momus. You look like 15 years younger in all these photos. :)
Date: 2009-06-21 02:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-06-22 06:05 am (UTC)Yep. A faux pas in Greece...
(Tourists here are to be skinned professionally, by taxi-drivers and room-lenters, not by helpful citizens).
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Date: 2009-06-23 09:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-07-27 03:05 pm (UTC)Http://spitirodaki.blogspot.com
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