Table Of ContentD E
IMITRIS LEAS
E P
CCENTRIC ORTRAITS
(The grandson of Aristotle
and his life as a writer in London!..)
London 2007-2011
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Dimitris Eleas was born in Athens. He has studied politics in London where he
lived. His work is full of thought, imagination and pictures. His name has appeared in
books, magazines and newspapers. His debut first book was published in Athens, as a 21
years old, with the title “Women” (1994) and he has completed his first novel “Eccentric
Notes” (1997-2004-2011). In London the “Ten Texts” (2007) was also published. The
writings also featured in his solo art exhibition in London “Texts with Icons” (1998).
His major work so far, is this book, which he wrote in the duration of the last
decade [+] in English, “Eccentric Portraits (The grandson of Aristotle and his life as a
writer in London)” (2007-2011). People try to revive their life by buying a new car or a
new pair of shoes, or having a great holiday. But people should also try to use their
imagination more, to revive their life. This is “the story” behind this book. Using
imagination, knowledge is expanded. Using knowledge, we ask more questions.
Website: Greek Eyes in the World (dimitriseleas.com) and the blog:
d.[cells/ideas] (dimitriseleas.wordpress.com).
Contact Dimitris Eleas at: [email protected].
Photo credit: Boris Ignatovich, Hermitage 1929.
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E P
CCENTRIC ORTRAITS
(The grandson of Aristotle
and his life as a writer in London!..)
D E
IMITRIS LEAS
London 2007-2011
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Dedicated to:
Noam Chomsky, David Ames Curtis, Michael Dugdale and Leo Wolfert
D E ECCENTRIC PORTRAITS
IMITRIS LEAS –
© Copyright 2007-2011 by Dimitris Eleas, London
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CONTENTS
Who is Aristotle? Who is the grandson of Aristotle?
I This and That from the imagination
Bridges and Brassieres
Chimneys and Pens
Computer’s Keys and Cemetery
Enemy and Time
Opening Champagne and Fireworks
Piano’s Keys and Teeth
Thought and Drainage
Cardiogram and Lightning Bolt
Black Clouds and Mobile Phones
Curiosity and Faith
Onions and Fingerprints
Oranges and Mosques
The Friday midday Prayer of Muslims, Spider Web and Octopus
Trees and Nervous Systems
II People from the life
A business development executive – Leo Wolfert
A philosopher in Athens – Jacques Derrida
A philosopher with hair in Paris – Kostas Axelos
The philosopher of autonomy – Cornelius Castoriadis
A taxi driver gives dinner in his house – Mr. Babar
A writer in Paris – Elias Petropoulos
An Englishman in Cyprus – Michael Dugdale
Gallery of People
Oxford, Cambridge, and the Genius – Giorgos Evagelopoulos
The Prime Minister and the Professor – Tony Blair and Anthony
Giddens
A Member of Parliament in London – Simon Hughes
A philosopher in London – Jurgen Habermans
A restaurant company boss – Hussein Ozer
A woman with light – Evi Goloni
A film director in London – Theo Angelopoulos
A president in London – Nelson Mandela
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A linguist in London – Noam Chomsky
The chef leaves the restaurant – Hagi Akdogan
III Aphorisms from the thinking
How to Become Famous
German Principles given to the grandson of Aristotle
Women and Men write the: M is for Men
Sad Aphorisms
Thoughts on Restaurants
What people in bad mood think? A few thoughts
How the Jewish think according to the Synagogue maintainer
Marriage Proposals
Pictures, touching many people I know
The book of Death
Thoughts on the word “Please”
IV Small Stories from the society
A letter that I never posted to Umberto Eco
A tribute to pigs from a butcher
Alan Gulliver writes the: L is for Leslie
Ideas for stories I won’t write
Mr. H.R., takes his two guests out for an Eight Courses Meal
The old man Mr. Alexander Rozakis
A man asks: Why am I gay?
A Woman’s hair story
Conference of Mosquitoes in Ferrara, Italy
Knives, Forks, Cleaners and their God Speaks
The Master, the Lady and the Servants
The pink Man
V Small Texts from the society
Beautiful Londinium
Horses
London Underground
Sand Desert
Texts
The eyes that look at the Tower of Piza
The Larynx of Maria Callas
The Poison of Socrates
The Fallen Angels
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Bums
Gallery of Ideas
Gallery of Objects
Shoes
The Evil
The Human Face. (The recognition of the faces in our brain)
The Moustache, the Skull and the Hat
The Power of Stupidity
VI Self-Portrait from the life
A ten days dairy of: death, evil, sadness and pessimism before
meeting a woman that I loved
Love Letters to Emy
On Live and (then) Write: the Apple
Self – Portrait: The grandson of Aristotle
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“Imagination
is more
important
than knowledge.”
ALBERT EINSTEIN
GERMAN – AMERICAN PHYSICIST (1879 – 1955)
“…my collection is
the result of my life…”
4TH MARQUESS OF HERTFORD (1857)
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Who is Aristotle?
Who is the grandson of Aristotle?
Let’s see firstly who Aristotle was. He was born in Stageira of Chalcidice in
Greece in 384, and he died in Chalcis of Euboea in 322 BC. Aristotle studied at Plato’s
Academy: philosophy, geometry, and physics. He is Ille Philosophus (The Philosopher,
as the medieval scholars called him), who laid down methods for knowledge in a way
that nobody did before him, and nobody did after until at least the 19th century.
For Aristotle teaching was the best way for the manifestation of knowledge, thus,
it happened, he had as a pupil Alexander the Great. Methods and ideas that are found in
his writings cover many subjects: invention of logic, he summarized knowledge, work on
ethics, work on aesthetics, work on psychology, advancing sciences as a result of being a
genius polymath – botany, cosmology, psychology, physics, rhetoric, politics, and the
invention of scientific biology and zoology – from studying the social organization of
bees, to distinguishing whales and dolphins from fish.
Cicero, described Aristotle’s writings as “a river of gold”. One-third of his
writings has survived from antiquity and is collected in the Corpus Aristotelicum by
Immanuel Bekker. Which is also the standard form of reference to the collected works by
Aristotle. It is based on the page numbers, which were used in the Aristotelis Opera
edidit Academia Regia Borussica, (Berlin, 1831-1870) an edition by the Prussian
Academy of Sciences. The Corpus Aristotelicum excluding only The Constitution of the
Athenians, which was discovered in Egypt in 1879 on two leaves of papyrus. And this
one-third from his work, can be seen as a collection of all the Greek knowledge of his
era.
And who is the Unknown grandson of Aristotle? To answer this it will take some
time, so possibly, the best way is to follow his life as a writer in London through the
pages of this humble manuscript, or as the title of the book indicates, his life through the
Eccentric Portraits. This book is not a novel, but it can be read as one - that it was
influenced by the polymath Aristotle, and it is written in a parallel setting from his distant
grandson. The aim for this book is one day to be published in UK, US or Canada. If this
does not happen, then, a private ‘secret’ copy will be published and placed at the
Archivum Secretum Vaticanum. There, to be placed next to items such as letters from
Henry VIII and Michelangelo. There, inside the Archivum Secretum Vaticanum, I
imagine that the secret list exists, the one which proves that I am Aristotle’s grandson.
Who else can it be?
Above all, Aristotle’s thinking provided a substance for Christianity, as soon as,
his work was united with it, in a method of learning that the medieval universities and
Christians (circa 1100-1500) called Scholasticism. Aristotle also was the spiritual father
of St. Thomas Aquinas who wrote Summa Theologica (1274). However, in modern day’s
Christian Europe, the exceptional and foremost place in the heart of the grandson is held
by a Muslim woman. The grandson, from time to time, he had to battle to see her eyes.
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Aristotle was the man that made Dante to write, in describing him, as “the master
of those who know”. His grandson is “the master of those who don’t know, but trying to
learn”. Of course, you cannot blame the master for any mistakes of the grandson, as well
as, you cannot blame the grandson for any mistakes of the master, more than twenty-three
hundred years after his death. The twenty-three hundred years is a long time for a human
being, but not for the myth the name Aristotle came to symbolize. But, no matter what, as
a family pride issue, the grandson is on the receiving end.
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