{"id":45002,"date":"2016-06-28T20:05:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanejoker.info\/en\/?p=45002"},"modified":"2020-11-18T23:47:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T21:47:01","slug":"some-will-sell-their-dreams-for-small-desires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanejoker.info\/en\/2016\/06\/some-will-sell-their-dreams-for-small-desires.html","title":{"rendered":"Some will sell their dreams for small desires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-paragraph-padding-4\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sanejoker.info\/content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DeadMan_001-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31254\" src=\"http:\/\/sanejoker.info\/content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DeadMan_001-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanejoker.info\/content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DeadMan_001-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/sanejoker.info\/content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DeadMan_001-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sanejoker.info\/content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DeadMan_001-1-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sanejoker.info\/content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DeadMan_001-1-100x65.jpg 100w, https:\/\/sanejoker.info\/content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DeadMan_001-1-539x357.jpg 539w, https:\/\/sanejoker.info\/content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DeadMan_001-1-729x483.jpg 729w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLife swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.\u201d<br \/>\nA. Schopenhauer<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe void exists for as long as you are not falling into it.\u201d<br \/>\nOdysseas Elytis<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want you feeling dismal when it\u2019s getting black<br \/>\ndevoid of the darkness the years remain blank\u201d<br \/>\nSokratis Malamas, The letter<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was staying up late at a friend\u2019s house. We were chatting away about photography and literature, while outside it was pouring with rain and Uragan fell from the stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Dead Man\u201d by Jarmush was on TV. Neil Young\u2019s distorted guitars sounded like thunders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At some point the phone rang. We eyed it, as if an intruder had come in to disturb our anxiety. After five rings Bill made it to get up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s for you\u201d he told me and I wondered how come the feds, the FBI agents, had tracked me down at this den.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I took hold of the receiver, all I heard was a question:<br \/>\n\u201cWhat do you do, when you feel you\u2019re falling into the void?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It took me some seconds to figure out who was talking. It was Nick, an internal migrant in Athens, who was working as a courier and was dreaming big of distant travels \u2013 a bit further than a 50cc motorbike could take you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhat do you do, when you feel you\u2019re falling into the void?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bill was looking at me looking back at him, with the receiver attached to my ear, speechless.<br \/>\n\u201cWho is it?\u201d he asked me.<br \/>\n\u201cA friend. A friend who has fallen into the void.\u201d<br \/>\nHe sat up and said:<br \/>\n\u201cThe void exists for as long as you are not falling into it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It rules. When you\u2019re falling into the void, then it\u2019s no longer a void. It becomes something.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was raining outside and the drenched couriers delivered letters and parcels to dry people. Many years later I would do my stint to this job and get a picture how toilsome street jobs are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Back then I had a friend on the telephone who was dreaming big of distant travels with cargo ships and ocean liners while on my back another one was rolling a cigarette watching Johnny Depp dying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ~~<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-paragraph-padding-2\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>I wrote all these lines while I was reading \u201cLeviathan\u201d by <\/em><em>Paul Auster. Then I started reading one by McCarthy. Auster is lyrical even though when he writes about dismembered bodies. McCarthy is dry, just like the desert of Arizona.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It sucks mate, sucks big time. I work all day long for what? I buy nothing, not even a cheese pie, to save money, for what? To pay the rent and the electricity? For what?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was listening to Nick staring out of the window. A tsunami from apartment buildings welled up underneath our feet to devour us. A town consisting of lost lives, so many lives in the lost city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prostitutes and pimps, couriers and taxi drivers, sick and tired store employees and shop owners with fake smiles and a baby whining while his mother shouts hysterically \u201cZip it! Zip it anyway!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This isn\u2019t exactly what I fantasized, said Nick.<br \/>\nNone of us did, I told him.<br \/>\nYes, but it didn\u2019t work.<br \/>\nDreams have this unfortunate knack, this bad habit; never coming true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bill snorted contemptuously at my poetic language and went to the bathroom. Nick went on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019m here with Catherine whom, granted, I love dearly, and her friends come here and the only topic of discussion is the CVs. Where did I send it, what kind of job it is and what they want, how will I get hired, and that\u2019s all they talk about, about work exclusively and I want to shout in their faces:<br \/>\nIT\u2019S A FUCKING JOB!<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-paragraph-padding-2\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Then, now. As I bring this night back to my mind, I enter its loop as if I relieve it, right now. I\u2019ll keep on writing using present time. Let the God of Philologists forgive me; and if he doesn\u2019t like it, he may drown himself in the churned waters of the sterilized sea.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">IT\u2019S A FUCKING JOB!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I pull the receiver from my ear to avoid deafness, but then Nick falls into a whisper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Do you remember what we used to say? he asks me.<br \/>\nAbout what?<br \/>\nHow we want to live. Remember? A sack on our back, the guitar on our shoulders and travelling. No beans. Whatever may come, let it come. Do you remember?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bill shuffles back from the bathroom and plunges into the couch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I guess that\u2019s the way it goes with all the people, I tell Nick.<br \/>\nWith all?<br \/>\nWith most of them. Almost all of them.<br \/>\nMeaning?<br \/>\nThey make plans, dreams, arrange travels\u2026<br \/>\nAnd then what?<br \/>\nThen they adapt themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nick gives a laugh, but his laughter has something that makes my skin crawl, like a presage of the death coming, just like Young\u2019s guitar scratching noises when Depp gets into the boat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then suddenly, he comes to a halt. I can see him with my mind\u2019s eye fixing his glance at the opposite wall. I jump into the opportunity to top up my glass. Bill gives me a reprehensive look.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What do you want to do? I ask Nick.<br \/>\nWhen?<br \/>\nNow, this very moment, what do you want to do?<br \/>\nBe somewhere else.<br \/>\nWhere?<br \/>\nDunno. Somewhere else. Not here.<br \/>\nLeave then.<br \/>\nGo where?<br \/>\nAnywhere. What\u2019s the matter?<br \/>\nAnd what am I supposed to do there?<br \/>\nSomething better than what you do here, for sure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bill chips in, enigmatic as always:<br \/>\nYou can\u2019t escape yourself, no matter where you go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can\u2019t, it\u2019s true. He will always be there, looking back at you from the mirror, putting on your clothes, eating your food, getting tired out of your tiredness, but never learning from your mistakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ~~<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-paragraph-padding-2\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I finished McCarthy\u2019s book and I started another one by Auster \u201cThe music of chance\u201d. I feel like I read Harlequin. Not because Auster is not a good author, not by any means. It\u2019s just that McCarthy pushes you into the void with no frills added. With just a push, is like saying to you: We all live in the shit and there are no stars.<br \/>\nLike saying to you: There is no present, there is no present tense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conversation with Nick ended abruptly. At some point he just said: OK, I\u2019m hanging up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He understood that I could be of no help to get him out of his void. How could I? I was falling somewhere around there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The movie was over and Bill had drifted off on the sofa. I got out on the balcony, this was my only way out, but fake as all the others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of the windows were reflecting TV screen lights. Five million people watching TV to lull them to sleep and when they wake up, they\u2019ll find themselves at a work they loath, to earn enough (or not) money to pay their bills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why do we live like that Nick? Why don\u2019t we take our guitars and go out to see the world? Without money, without purpose. It can\u2019t be worse than working as a courier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why do we keep on relentlessly living like this, even though our life is so dull?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many years have passed since that night but I\u2019ve found no answer. Nick can\u2019t help me, he was killed with his bike a few years later. He didn\u2019t travel, he was appointed to the municipal police and he got used to it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ~~<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-paragraph-padding-2\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the books of Auster that I read, all of the central characters acquire somehow \u2013 and unexpectedly- a big amount of money. This fact changes their lives.<br \/>\nMcCarthy\u2019s protagonist bumps into a bag with millions from the Mexican drug dealers and this destroys his life, he is killed and takes down with him many of his friends and relatives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For Auster, money is a way out, even though fake. For McCarthy, it is the root of the problem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ~~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What do you do, when you feel you\u2019re falling into the void? Nick had asked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perhaps I do know. You get used to it; and it\u2019s no longer a void. You name it reality, life, realism, you call it what-else-could-I-do?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So you go on working as a courier, having no memory of the plans you made to go round the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You get used to it. It\u2019s an acquired taste. Or perhaps you go off your plans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then you die and it\u2019s too late. The chance is gone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ~~<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-paragraph-padding-2\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s Sunday evening, halfway through October, wrapping up this text. It was written in parts and fragments within two months, a few words at a time. I read through McCarthy\u2019s \u201cThe Crossing\u201d once again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I already disagree with my earlier claims about getting used to. I can\u2019t get used to it. Perhaps I\u2019m a misfit, a genetic-social-psychological error. But I don\u2019t mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sorry world, I just can\u2019t get used to your ugliness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And as I listen to Malamas singing <em>I <\/em><em>don\u2019t want you feeling dismal<\/em>, the phone will ring and it will be Nick <em>when it\u2019s getting black<\/em>, calling from hell (+666 code number), <em>devoid of the darkness<\/em>, and when he asks me what do you do, when you feel you\u2019re falling into the void, <em>the years remain blank<\/em>, I will reply:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Make believe that you are flying Nick. You\u2019re not falling, you\u2019re flying.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #808000;\">Sanejoker&#8217;s Facebook page:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sanejoker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sanejoker\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Translated by Alexandros Mantas\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/residuosmentales.bandcamp.com\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/residuosmentales.bandcamp.com\/releases<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLife swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.\u201d A. 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