CONTENTS
CHAPTERONE
PREFACE
EARLYYEARS. ELEMENTARYANDHIGH SCHOOL: 1875-1892
FirstmemoriesfromChaniain Creta
Schoolyears. The Hill Americanscholl-The Tower of winds in Plaka………………………………….
Saturation: The great enemy and the great friend………………………………………………………….
Educationalbeliefsofthe 19thcentury
Myfirstliteraryessay
Avlona in Albania and the Italianschool
The wonderfulChristakisZografos:Abeautifullife andabeautifuldeath
Lifeatthe AlbanianAvlona
BacktoAthens
The city of Monastiri in Macedonia
My school friendTanchiev–The Bulgarianpropagandaandus
The Greek cityPhilippopolis, nowPlovdiv
TheBulgarianmethods
TheBulgarization
Pomaks:the turkicized AgrianesofAlexander the great, nowAchrianides
My hight school at Kornarou street.
The military exercises for school children andAntonopoulos
The cadet school
My firstFeuilleton. Kranae:archaeologicalvandalisms.
UNIVERSITYSTUDIES: 1892 -1897
KretansandManiates
GeorgeSouris andthe platformover theFaliron beach
TheCretianrevolutions andthe Cretian ‘beasts’
The disputesofOresteias
The translation of the Holy Book
CharilaosTrikoupis
Thepoor-willedprime ministerof 1897:Declarewar!
The battle atMati,near thebridge of Larissa
Volos- The battles of Velestinoandthe Garibaldians
The Mitsa battery.Smolenskis
QueenOlga and PrinceGeorge
Domokos – The GaribaldiansandCipriani – RedCross
Pomboukis andthe diphtheriaserum
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CHAPTERTWO
SERVING AS OFFICER OF THE NAVY: 1898-1923
Entry tests for the navy
Commandersandlieutenants
TypaldosKozakis
FrosoMichaelVoda-Soutsou
ThePoros islandandthe ‘Aris’brigantine –The fights
Matchmaking andFlorenceStone
The ‘rivers’ boats. Black fate
The'Psarianara’
Some difficult characters
Inheritance and free will
CaptainStamatis, the «handsome one»
Bellini.BellaItalia
Marseille andBouillabaisse
Spain. OleEspaña
Bull fights. An arsonistandthe publicgratitude
The follies of youth. Going inside the lioncage.
Mount Athos.
TheGreek-turks. Smyrna andAlexandria.
VlassisGavrielidis
The assassination ofTh. Deligiannis
The cosmopolitanAthensof 1900
GeorgeSouris. The RoyalTheatre and the courtiers.
My firstmedal
Tableauvivantofthe Ilion (Schliemann) Mansion
My literary development. Poetry, dance, music
The death of kingAlexander
The one-act playof the Russian Embassy. Becominga reluctanttenor and composerSamaras.
My bodilyhardships. And a bit ofphilosophy.
The weirdness of death.
The Miaoulis cruiser. Sicily. Naples
Vesuvio - Pompay.
Algiers.
OleEspaña.
Bull fights. Glorifying the bullfighter.
Portugal. The queen.
Canaryislands.
Asima – San. And a bit of Japan
The cosmopolitanAthens
MacedonianRapsodies. Theatrical life
The new stage andChristomanos
The empressElisabeth
Body and soul
Theproblemwith marriage
PolyviosDemetrakopoulos
What is thatcalled love
When one is twenty years old
A realking!
The greatchamberlain
Queen Alexandra of England abd theblue birdofMaeterlinck
The veil ofgoddessIsis
Germany:Konformation
A pilot-test in sleep-death
A beautifulGermanlittlesoul
Tragicinheritances
The German“von”and the Greek origin
Theboat journey over river Rhine.The castles ofthe knight-thieves. Beethoven
TheGerman phillellenicmentality.
Back to Greece. Becoming sanitation officer at Peiraeus.
TheAndros island andthe Mainetes.
The open fairs inthe island of Andros.
Venizelosenlarges theterritory of Greece.
KingConstantine. The kingfollowersvs. the Venizelos followers.
Setting fire of my book. «The exterminatorangel»
Brotherly love
The quarantine station of Salamina island. TheidyllicSt. Georgeisland
TheBularian captives of the Greeks in the 19th century.
The Russianrefugees.
Philosophical promenades. The man being a«mortalgod»-Heracletus
Difficultdiscussionsforachristian
My rash typhus illness. A farewell to the little island
DepartureforSmyrna. The greatmistake of Venizelos.
Thenationalcommittee. Everyoneagainst us.
How we did it. Long live America!
The french Embassy:Nest of Kemalists. An unpleasantprognosticate.
The quarantine station ofKlazomenes. The eroticfeatsofthe Turkish prisoners
My internal bleeding andmysecondlaparoscopy.
The GavurIzmir: The infidel Smyrna.
When Constantinople nearly becameGreek.
The Franco-levantinesofSmyrna.
Theso-called “spider crab”.
Τhe sacred cassock.
The MetropolitanpriestChrisostomos of Smyrna.
Illness in our family....... 218
At the first cemetary of Athens.
How I becamefirst-man of a wedding wherethe bride goes to prison in Paris.
Promotionby selectionto chief physician.
The terrorof wars. Thedistruction of Asia Minor. The so-called “Chikarpantalona»
Τhegreeklish "fragochiotika”.
TheJewsofThessalonika.
There was Smyrna once.
Theexecutionsof ministers. Plastiras.
The Marquise Lavrentia.
Τheunpleasantriesofbeauty.
Thespiritualloverof.. Fryneonthe island of Spetses.
Indiscreetnessesfor Fryne.
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CHAPTERTHREE
HELLENICSOCIETYFOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH: 1923 - ~1960
Intellectuallife.
Childishreligiosity.
Holyinquisition. Consubstantial.
Themysteriousworld of bees and ants.
Witchery. Spiritualism. Spiritualistic delusions.
Τheendof a nobleidealist.
The founding of the Society for Psychical Research
The predictions of PavlosNirvanas.
Polemis, Damvergis, Anninos, Filadelpheus, Mermigas, Kyrou, Katsaras.
Livieratos. Hypnotism. Mental suggestion.
Clairvoyance. Predicting deaths.
The crimes offanatics.
Monks andPenitentiarists.
The religion of science.
Lecturesat the forencic medicineamphitheatre. Wooden stallin theAcademy.
The theory of Tanagrasof psychobolie. The evil eye.
Medicalcrimes. The founder of National Academy.
PrinceChristofer. The grand duchess Maria of Greece.
The promises of government ministers.
AlexandraChoremiBenaki.
Lecturesat the University.
Announcement of the internationalcongressinParis, 1927.
Ruinsofsexuallife.
Government administration unreliability.
Telekineticphenomena on the island of Thasos.
TheemergenceofCleio.
Theexperimentsof theSociety of Psychophysiology.
Peripateticlectures.
Lond-distance telepathy.
Telepathy in Criminology.
Apiculture. The discovery of the temple of Appolo in Vouliagmeni.
TheSundayschools.
Thirdinternationalcongressin Sorbonne,Paris, 1927.
Wandering in Paris with Spyros Melas.
The 4thinternationalcongress ofpsychophisiologyinAthens, 1930.
The excursion to Delphi. Anationalcrime.
A rehearsal with death.
Dionysios Tavoularis theatre.
5thinternationalcongress in Norway, 1935.
Vienna, 1935.
Firewalking–The “anastenaria”.
Celebrating the first 15 yearsof the Society.
In the name of Jesus Christe.
The orgies of the monks. The «Penitentiaries». Fanaticsouls.
My stolen work. ThedeathofOlympus.
Nationalgreed. HitlerismandtheFratelli.
EroKonstantopoulou.
The theory of Psychobolie, evil spell.
Neglecting our ancientdress style.
National gratitude. The graveofOdysseasAndroutsos. A sacrilege
Cranae. Ablasphemy.
Te inequality of people.
Everyone has their own kink.
The island of Creta.
Drosoulites.
My cretian relative.
My fourth surgery operation.
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CHAPTERFOUR
EPILOGUE
Thetroubledconquorde square(Omonia).
Cheappoliticalcompetition. Kotzias-Merkouris.
The blasphemy of a sacred part of Ilissos stream.
Τhe tales ofOld Testament.
ΤheringofThamarin weddings.
Spiritual delusions.
The old and new Athens.
The Chinesecommunism.
Theubiquitouspurposefulnessof the animal kingdom.
Christmas 1959.
Howpsychical properties can be cultivated.
Some examples of psychicalproperties.
The religion of science.
Τhe secrets of the soul.
NuclearPhysics, the universeand life.
An odd compulsory cooperation
Loveforanimals.
Some remarks.
Conclusions.
AngelosTanagras: Theoldersurvivor of the literary garrison.
THE WORKS OFANGELOSTANAGRAS 550
Ι. Studies – Essays
ΙΙ. Prose
ΙΙΙ.Translations of ancient Greek texts
FOTINIPALLIKARIPROMOTINGTHEWORKOFA.TANAGRAS
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