Two middle-aged men drink champagne and look cheerful, almost tucked into black leather armchairs. The one, with sporty everyday clothes, he sits with his mouth half open, listening to his interlocutor. Sometime he nods, Sometime he smile, sometime he opens his mouth completely, risking contact with suspended dust particles and insects. But he doesn't utter a word. THE …
On the main paved street of the city, with the shops, people were coming and going in a hurry, sometimes on foot, sometimes on horses, trying to catch everything. Most of them left the countryside and settled in the city, doing various professions. One became carpenter, another one became carriage, another one grocer. In any case they found in the city a large clientele for …
Loukouras, eminent orthopedist, maintained a doctor's office in the central square of Fanaroupolis. His office was located in an very old, filthy, spidery apartment building, and was quite high, that you could gaze at the noisy life of urban everyday life through the glass. Its furniture was old-fashioned, although lordly. Heavy, Carved furniture filled the office space, with …