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Bio >>> Dimitris Eleas FACTFILE TIME-LINE LOVE LIFE AND LIVE IT TO THE FULL HAS PASSION FOR THINGS PUT ALWAYS HIS OWN RULES A MAN WITH A NOTEBOOK… A CAMERA… 1973: Born on July 24, in Athens. To a mother that used to sing and write poetry and a father that travelled around the world. 1983: At the age of 10, other children at the school listen to the ancient ‘Greek Myths.’ He used to listen from his parents and his uncles, about the great-grand-father (a local genius) Harlambis Zoukouras. He was buying lots of land, measuring the land by walking on it. He became wealthy but he died in prison after killing a pregnant pig. In April of 1877, Oscar Wilde travelled in Greece and he visited Katakolo and Olympia, the area near Dimitris’s origin. About the man in South Africa that had shoe factories and a beautiful wife. About the man in New York that had a taxi company with 40 taxis. About Anagnostopoulos in Washington DC that changed his name to Spiro Agnew and became the 39th Vice-President of the USA. About other people that went to Germany. About other people that went to South Arabia and worked as bull-dozer drivers. About the man that went to study in Italy to learn how to build bridges but at the end he became a painter and a gambler. Those were the ‘Real Myths’ with which he grew up. 1991: Joins the Greek Army, ideal background for literary characters. Many pictures stay in his mind and they appear in his novel: ECCENTRIC NOTES / ΕΚΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΕΣ ΣΗΜΕΙΩΣΕΙΣ (published in Athens, Ekdoseis Aggelakh, 2013). 1992: At the age of 19 he gets a letter from the French philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis. He meets in person Castoriadis in 1996. Account of letters & meetings is the book: PRIVATE CORNELIUS / ΙΔΙΩΤΙΚΟΣ ΚΟΡΝΗΛΙΟΣ (published in Athens, Ekdoseis Aggelakh, 2014). 1994 February: He changes his name to: Dimitris Eleas. May: Makes debut in Athens with his first book: WOMEN / ΓΥΝΑΙΚΕΣ as a 21 years old. [Ekdoseis Pothitos] September 6: He has a date with his beautiful girlfriend Chrisa Andriopoulos. Chrisa never comes. Chrisa had a fatal car accident while he was waiting for her! A Greek Tragedy early in life. ‘DEATH, a disgusting poison.’ 1988-1995: From the age of 15 he starts buying and collecting plethora of books in his house in Athens. 1995-2000: Arrives in London to study Political Science and he follows lectures in the University of East London, and other Colleges. He is a “Book-bee in the morning, book-ant at night.” 1997: Announces his Life Time WORK PLAN. Small changes have taken place since then. 1998 March: Meets the German painter Leo Wolfert. October: Texts with Icons, solo art exhibition at LRC. A poster with an invitation is sent to the Prime Minister Tony Blair. 2001: In Berlin [Germany is philosophy’s land] with his Notebook, pays his respects to philosopher Georg Hegel, the play writer Bertotl Brecht, he visits the canal where Rosa Luxemburg died and Humboldt University where Albert Einstein studied as a young man. 1995-2005: In London, as he did in Athens, he starts collecting plethora of books and works of art. He is linked to a few women. All of them presenting him with many books and albums. He buys properties, shares and a restaurant business in Covent Garden. He works also as a restaurant manager in a few venues. He dines in the best venues in London in order to take experience and in some of the best places in the world. His Notebook is always with him. 2006: He buys a flat in London Waterloo to use as an office in order to start a property company. 2007 March: Visits China with his Notebook to see the New Superpower. June: In the summer, in his main restaurant business in Covent Garden, they break his sub-lease and this leaves him with a big loss of private money. This loss makes it impossible for the property company to take off. September: The small book: TEN TEXTS, [privately] published in London, indicating distinctive new styles & forms. [EGO media] November: He meets the beautiful A.R.. A relationship develops... But he is on the losing side and falls into alcohol and becomes very lonely. ‘LOVE, a delicious poison.’ 2008: By this year he has lived [Fletcher Buildings] and worked for 10 years in Covent Garden in Tavistock Street [Thomas de Quincy lived, Charles Dickens wrote] and Floral Street [Pablo Picasso designed, Oscar Wilde imprisoned across in Magistrates Court]. He completes the book: ECCENTRIC PORTRAITS - The grandson of Aristotle (later as United Stages of Aristotle). 2009 June: After a complaint from A.R. to the company that he was working, he feels like he gets shot in the stomach. He puts a small fortune on Number 8 of the roulette. The Number 8 that symbolizes the eyes of A.R.. The painter Van Gogh cut his Ear. Account of these events and sleepless nights is the book: THE BOY AND THE GIRL. October: Over a bottle of wine [1983 Petrus], he decides to give up the day to day job, to concentrate on his books and visual works of collage. But at the end, he becomes the partner of a club. This experience helps a re-think on: Ethics and Sigmund Freud. December: Alexis becomes his assistant in order to organize and type the thousand of notes & manuscripts that have been kept over the last 20 years. [From the age of 16 to 36, NOTES from inside 4500 books, from about 500 archive files, from about 4000 handwritten A4 pages, from the diaries he kept IN SECRET for almost all the people he met in his entire life, from about 3000 pictures, from 4 boxes full of letters, from 15 boxes full of small objects and about 250 collages in both Athens and London. It was a shock for Alexis when he realized the size of the work done and the detailed information gathered over the years.] (Alexis soon gives up!) 1992-2009: The name of Dimitris Eleas has appeared in newspapers, magazines, on the internet and many books. 2010 February: A website is launched in order to host some different pieces of writing in form and style. The work of Dimitris is full of thought, imagination and pictures. ‘His work and life put gloves on to many other writers and thinkers.’ He is interested in everything. He enjoys every single minute in life. “My reign is in its END and in its Beginning.” April 16-May 20: Arrives in ‘Hell.’ With his Notebook, next to homeless, career-criminals and others. ‘The divine Orwellian accident.’ An ideal background for literary characters. It helps a re-think on: Language, Logic and Ludwig Wittgenstein. September: Arrives in Warsaw, and later on he visits Auschwitz concentration camp to pay his respects to the 1.5 million people that perished here. ‘The heart of the Holocaust’. October: Arrives in Efyra, the village of his origin. He tries to save the last stone build house from demolition with a plan to turn it into a local museum on the history of the farming methods. But he fails to do so. 2011 January: Arrives in Athens. A school friend plants a tree at the main park of Athens, Pedion tou Areos, and names it after him: Tree Dimitris! June: Arrives in Cracow, and later on by road to Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Skopje, and Athens and from there to London. December: Arrives in Berlin. 2012 April: Arrives in Paris. In Paris he meets the American translator David Ames Curtis. He is at the world premiere of the film by the dancer Clara Gibson Maxwell, in the music of Ornette Coleman at the Cinema Chaplin-Denfert. He visits Montparnasse Cemetery (Cimetière du Montparnasse) to pay his respects to Cornelius Castoriadis. To pay his respects to all the human figures in this cemetery, including: Charles Baudelaire, Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Kostas Axelos, Raymond Aron, Emil Cioran, Adamantios Korais, Bernard Lacoste, Man Ray, Sabine Zlatin… 2013: Publications: Eccentric Notes, 2014: Publications: Private Cornelius, He lives by the sea... []. He lives by a forest... []. He lives by the valley of society... []. To live alone one must be an animal or a god – says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both – a philosopher. Friedrich Nietzsche The thinking & main ideas that cross his writings: The ideas below, in essays & aphorisms: [ the eccentric-erotic element in history ] [ exit strategy = new elements ] [ risk theory, risk strategy = new elements ] [ symbols, semiotic & linguistic ] [ the thinking and how the brain works ] [ beauty, love, death ] [ passion and attachment theory between lovers ] [God ] [ theory of war ]+[ football, a war without guns ] [ totalitarian regime, prison system, psychiatric system that legitimate the use of power ] [ food ] [ liberal western democracy, theory of power ] [ rethinking Islam ] [ film, fashion - the visual ]+[ words, books - the spoken ] [ modern engineering ] [ central bank money supply and money culture ] [ philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics ] FACTFILE PEOPLE & PLACES Over the years, Dimitris met in person many people in: London, Paris, New York, New Jersey, Berlin, Rome, Beijing, Chios, Tinos, Rhodes, Mykonos, Thessaloniki, Efyra, Aegina, Brighton, Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Sheffield, Gravesend, Cardiff, Toronto, Warsaw, Rzeszow, Cracow, Auschwitz, Paphos, Nicosia, Larnaca, Brussels, Cannes, Monaco, Monte Carlo and Belgrade. For different reasons they influenced him and made him think ‘further’ for his writings and life: Antonis Samarakis Greek writer, Eleni Kazantzakis the widow of the writer Nikos Kazantzakis (she told him “The manuscripts of Nikos, after his death, used to burn my fingers”), Jacques Derrida French philosopher [TEXT WRITTEN / TW], Gerasimos Arsenis minister of Greek Economy, Kostas Axelos Greek-French thinker, philosopher, writer (a lonely genius, he read the book Eccentric Notes (2004)) (Dimitris received many letters from him) [TW], Elias Petropoulos writer, poet, folklorist (he wrote about Dimitris’s first book Women (1994) in his book/album The History of Condom, Nefeli Press-1996, page 222, he read also the book Eccentric Notes (2004)) (Dimitris received many letters from him) [TW], Noam Chomsky American linguist and social thinker (Dimitris received many letters and emails from him) [TW], Nelson Mandela South African president and ethical leader [TW], Jurgen Habermas German philosopher [TW], George A. Papandreou Greek political leader who became Prime Minister of Greece in October 2009 [TW], Chrisa Andriopoulos (she died young in a car accident in Athens) [BOOK WRITTEN / BW], Cornelius Castoriadis French philosopher and psychoanalyst (a genius, a titan of thought, AssociationCastoriadis, www.castoriadis.org, he wrote about him the book Private Cornelius (Dimitris received letters from him) [BW], David Ames Curtis writer and translator (the American translator of Castoriadis who used to call him “my angel”, he has done more than anyone else through excellent translations to promote the work of Castoriadis in the Anglo-Saxon world, www.agorainternational.org and Dimitris improved his English by reading his translations [TW], Chris Patten last Governor of Hong Kong, Simon Hughes MP and British political leader of the Social Democrats (he helped for a week his re-election campaign for the Parliament, 2001) [TW], Anthony Giddens London School of Economics-LSE director and sociologist (back in 2002 he asked him to draw ‘a spoon and a fork’ on A4 paper, and he kindly did) [TW], Martha-Maria Chrysomalis publisher-editor of The Hellenic Times, Luigi and ‘Luigi’s of Covent Garden’ (Dimitris and Luigi became friends, he told him: “You will succeed in life because you have got guts.” After he closed down the restaurant he had for over 40 years, in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, Dimitris bought most of the silver tableware and gave it as a present to Emy Halil. The tableware symbolism, it reaches all the dinners over the years, from Frank Sinatra to Prince Charles, from Tina Turner to Freddy Mercury, from Queen Beartix of Holland to Silvie Guilem, Roudolf Noureyef, Tony Blair and many others that dined in this restaurant over the years.), Otelo de Carvalio military officer and strategist (he led the Carnation Revolution in Portugal and later on he left the power to the politicians), Pablo [Michalis Raptis] (he met him when he was very old, he was a personal friend of Leon Trotsky and advisor of Ben Bella when he was the Prime Minister of Algeria), Andreas Konstandopoulos political scientist (the time they exchanged letters he was an advisor to the president of the French Parliament Laurent Fabious) (Dimitris received many letters from him), Giorgos H. Iliopoulos friend, teacher, Mentor and thinker (Dimitris received many letters and emails from him), Lydia Manitsidou, Leo Wolfert friend, painter, Mentor and intellectual (Dimitris received many letters from him) [TW], Ioannou Amalia teacher on literature (she understood the way he thinks and writes early in life), Eleni Kaskaba a teacher with personality, Nardya Wray customers relations (for the magical chats they had, while having his dinner ‘always alone’ at R.C.), Carol Duong customers relations (he told her: “In life is better to be with someone that loves you, than someone that you love and to wait for him/her to love you back, it won’t happen”), Emmanuel Saridis journalist and writer, www.berlin-athen.eu , Marlo Morgan writer (she dedicated in person her book Mutant message from forever), Manolis Zahariadis school friend (he died young on a motorcycle on the island of Crete), Nikos Georgiadis school friend, Ranjit Mathrani (attention on numbers, attention on sound like a composer, attention on light like an astronomer, but a dark way of creating unnecessary-meaningless prison system fear, and encouraging junior staff to complain about senior staff ) [TW], Emmanuel Galatoulas and Evi Goloni (back in 1996, Evi was brave to stand next to him in High Street Kensington in a small ‘begging performance’, at a surprise they made about £12 in two hours) [TW], Efi Papaharilaou (she gave him as present the book Ta Elegeia tis Oxopetras by Odysseas Elytis), Eleni Mantheaki, Pierro Sardano restaurant consultant (a ‘unique magma’, between Greek sunshine and Italian mafia theory-praxis), Giorgos Stavrianos friend, music composer and song writer, Giorgos L. Evagelopoulos writer and civil servant, advisor to the Greek Presidency [TW], Michael Duncan translator (of Scots-Irish parentage, he works on a script for television on The Legacy of Arab Civilization) (Dimitris received letters from him), Michael Dugdale tube station manager and friend (he showed him around the English country side and Cyprus, he spoke also to him about Alan Gulliver who composed classical music and committed suicide back in 2002) [TW], Babar [TW], Jamal and Steve taxi drivers, Morris Taraggano accountant, Scott Blatchley (he created for him the marketing/advertising plan for the first floor of Oxo Tower when it was available for leasing in 2005, www.toothbone.co.uk ), Ismail Zengin business partner (they visited many times The Smithfield Market for buying meat early in the morning), Vana friend and beauty therapist, Petros Oktaras friend and restaurant owner, Shen Qi Yu [Cathrine] tourist guide (she spent days with him, in order to show him Beijing well), Ozan Tatli (he gave him the book My Life by Bill Clinton), Metin Oz (at Sofra and now at www.volvo.com ), Ardic Aysun, John Wright writer in Richmond, Kostas Varsamis political scientist, Huseyin Ozer restaurateur (clever-charismatic man, a friend of the Greeks, but in management and in the relations with women a ‘mountain Turk’) [TW], Tamer Paksoy (he recovered for him the manuscripts of Eccentric Portraits (2007) from the burnet pc), Alan Bates actor (his customer at Sofra, stared in the movie Zorba the Greek), David Suchet genius actor (his customer at Rez’s, stared in the series Poirot and went to see him with Emy Halil in the play Man and Boy, the following day he told him: “I saw you yesterday”), Daniele Fania friend (he brought from Italy books on Silvio Berlusconi), Ann Cecilie Haukaas, Nezih Aykurt, Antonio Omeghetti, Odalis Aumedes Canosa, Giovanna Orru a beautiful young woman, Tarik Agcuka friend, Nelleke Oosten, Iftekhar Alam, Giannis Caralis engineer (he said to him: “Take a bag and leave from Greece”), Dimitris Pyromalis architect and family friend, Bernadette Vanova a beautiful woman, Asimina Kafida a beautiful woman [TW], Dora Klountzou a beautiful woman, Inci and Joseph Kelly, Didem Ozar, Eirini Maragos, Miriel and Tom, Konstantinos Segounis [Dinos] image director (long chats late at night on the power of Media and fast cars), Vassillis Fouskas lecturer, Naomi Campbell model (he saw Naomi a few times in Tavistock Street of Covent Garden, while she was visiting her modeling agency, they used to say hello, he was inspired by her beauty), Mary Nightingale ITV newsreader (he learned English by listening to her, also a very pretty woman, he saw her again a few times in Tavistock Street while visiting a boutique to buy ties for presents), Roberto Simeone restaurant manager turned marketing manager for a wine company, Edgar Saba Perouvian film director, www.pucp.edu.pe, Tony Matbros friend and coffee supplier, Emma Noel corporate events manager at Penguin, John Wright writer, M.P.L. Grean writer and editor, Costas Douzinas professor of Law at Birkbeck College and his customer at Sofra, Mustafa Cetinkaya photographer-journalist, Sultan Ahmad doctor and house tenant, Pavlos Eleftheriadis lecturer at LSE and his customer at Sofra, Elias Mossialos lecturer at LSE and his customer at Sofra turned Greek MP, Vassilis Fouskas lecturer and journal editor, Joel ‘Beckman’ Brazilian actor (he wrote about him in the text The book of Death), Niko Ladenis chef, Marrie Lee Peterson American writer, Fred Halliday prof. of international relations at LSE & visiting prof. at Institut Barcelona D’ Estudis Internacionals (his customer at Sofra and Rez’s, a character larger than life, he loved the Middle East, he had a strong voice and a great memory), Steven Kennedy publisher, www.palrgave.com, Ufuk Uyanik cartoonist, www.artistan.net, Afrodite Papadoulis Greek painter, Jane and Andrew Hirsch publisher, www.johnbrowncontract.com, Ana Guerrero at London Wall II Pizza Express, Ana Hernadez at London Wall II Pizza Express, priest Calistos Ware of Oxford (they met in a train going to Oxford), Eva Jorge a good and hard working Spanish woman, Ahmet Akdogan at Sofra and later at Haz, Hagi Akdogan at Sofra and later at Haz, Emre Akinci barman, Ismail Eryener, Birgul Topograf, Derya Soguk journalist, Serhat Akalin (he felt for him when he saw him heartbroken), Serkan Ekdi friend, Umut Unal waiter turned restaurant manager, Zafer Ustaoglu, Sema Sanin-Hampton, Korhan Kelebek cashier and manager, Cumali Aydiner great chef, Ozgur Oz waiter turned manager, Gunes Ugur, Saatci Zeki, Yaltsin Mustafa farmer turned barman, Servet Kilic great chef, Sait Suluhan, Hafit Merabet chef turned bus driver, Huseyin Doldur, Mehmet Urim waiter turned lorry driver (he invited him in his house and he treat him like a king), Avcier Sedef, Kwon Soon Sung, Karampas Alpay, Anthipi Lemou at St. Sophia Cathedral in Bayswater, Chrisanthi Lemou at St. Sophia Cathedral in Bayswater, Maria Chatzipatera at St. Sophia Cathedral in Bayswater, Titika Embiricos, Melita Adam Greek poet, Sunay Imam, Sheila Segounis (she introduced him to Leo Wolfert), Meltem Cicek, Nadir Ozdemir, Zeynep Cicesi manageress and beautiful woman, Maria and Marc, Marc is a chef and and his friend, Anjan Saha manager (long chats late at night helped him understand the Indian Culture), Ashwan Badhwar manager (nicknamed “Mr. Fast”, in the duration of a year he got married and had a baby girl born), Karen Macnally manageress (she read and ‘appreciated’ the Ten Texts), Melih Youcebas (a family man, he gave him a lot of advice and help), Sharmila Shrestha[Neeli] waitress (she told him once: “In life something that is important today won’t be tomorrow, and something that is not important today will be tomorrow”), Zorana Jercovic good-beautiful woman (she spoke to him about the need of having many ‘plans in life’:plan a, plan b, plan c, plan d,...), Vicky Bachani friend (he gave him his mobile), Ketan Kedarneth [Kulkarni] friend, Felicia Easoboaea (she knew the ‘pessimist’ Romanian-French thinker Emil Cioran, she had always a book with her, when she went for an interview at Foyles bookshop, she told them: “I have a friend who is a writer”), Hisrav Juraev friend, Stefano barman (Dorchester bar, for preparing for him strong Old Tom gins, that brought him a lot of inspiration, thinking and ‘making mistakes’), Jackie Segi (she brought him info-images on Mongolia), John in Bayswater (always with The Times newspaper, meeting him in his work and in his pub), Peter and Routh pub managers in Bayswater, priest Theodoritos of St. Sophia Cathedral in Bayswater and now he is in Athens for his blessings, priest Theonas of St. Sophia Cathedral in Bayswater, priest Ben of St. Paul Parish Church in Goodmayes (he followed him in his visits to the Goodmayes psychiatric hospital for the Christian service, visits that made him understand ‘madness’ further, also Ben gave him all the music manuscript that they were found inside Alan Gulliver’s flat from the police, his mother had died before, there was no other relative), Dame Siahan (she explained to him that in the community tradition in Indonesia that she belong to “there is no concept boyfriend-girlfriend, but only friend-lover”), Theo Angelopoulos film director (they met in London Riverside Studios, after winning the Palme d’ Or in the Cannes Film Festival) [TW], David Alwood writer and media researcher, Alekos Votsis (a good ‘public man’ that lived in America and Greece, an Olymbiakos supporter, he gave him a lot of help and advice), Giannis Dannas (he told him about the various gangsters he had to deal with in his entire life), Mr. Takis, Mr. Sakis Greek newspaper agency (for bringing for him the newspaper every Sunday), Stavros and Emy, Stavros the driver of the Greek Embassy in London, Mixalis and Angelos the best brothers in the world, Lisa Reed mortgage advisor, Olga, Nadia, Diana and Natalia of Byzantium café, The milkman and his son (they used to deliver the milk and he left without saying goodbye), Giorgos Antonatos (he brought him to see all the aphorisms that he keeps writing, they can be a book), Dimitris Arapatzis (he told him about his young relative, that first time in his life he booked a holiday for Rome and his heart failed and died inside the St. Peter’s Cathedral, Vatican City), Elias friend and waiter at Nobu Park Lane, Simon, Nikos and Kostas the painter of the Saints, Karl Waters friend at Gourmet Pizza, Madina Toore friend, Kurt and Eric (they helped him to understand the gays and lesbians), Theodosi-Polymeri Kyriaki [Sandy Theodosi] (she helped him with the English language and he gave her The Castoriadis’s Stone) (Dimitris received many letters from her), Josephine Mintah friend, Zahida Mahmooda (she helped him to understand Islam as a world religion) (Dimitris received many letters from her), Joanna Theodoropoulos (she helped him with Greek manuscripts and good cooking), Emy Halil (she helped him to understand the world of fashion, Coco Channel brand and Vivienne Westwood style) (Dimitris received many notes from her), Rez Halil friend and father of Emy, Angela and Jason friends of Emy, Veronica and the Twins (a beauty therapist and friend in Tavistock Street, she was blessed with twins, he visit them with Emy), Peter Connell chairman of Mullis & Peake solicitors (Dimitris received many letters from him), Baris Kalayci at sofra and now solicitor in Istanbul, Nina Esther Thomas public relations (a proud single mother, she helped him to understand Women and the Arab World), Alexandra Kokkali (for the hospitality while editing the Eccentric Portraits for the website and ‘discussing attachment theory towards adults and children’), Maria Gyrti (discussing the ‘influence’ of eastern European women on Modern Greek society and ‘the nurses contribution in pain management inside the hospital’), Huan from Bogota, Tim and Toss pub owners in Holborn (they invited him in great parties), Derek Robbins writer with focus on Bourdieu and intellectual (his customer at St.Cristopher’s Place Sofra), Wally Hammond journalist at Time Out, Giorgos Pelargidis (he read the book Eccentric Notes, made useful comments, he invited him in great parties and he also said: “…Eleas is like Brazil in football”.), Konstantinos Tsoukalas prof. of sociology, Nikos Mouzelis LSE prof. of sociology, Ian Pirie friend, Mentor and lecturer (conversations were held over the French philosopher Castoriadis and society), Michael Palin traveller (his customer over the years in Tavistock Street), Eleni Varvaroussi political scientist and friend (she completed a Ph.D. at Panteion University, she told him once: “You are the only person that I trust”), Marco Onorini furniture designer and friend, Angelica Schelp at Sofra, Tomas Schelp genius photographer, www.tomasschelp.com, Semih Aslan, Hamid Berry small shop owner, Marc Zoudini architect, Inn Chan interior designer, Cezar Suciu (he took him around The Royal Opera House in order to see all the backstage activity), Malami Bupa at SOAS, Clare De Silva, Nolan Asch, Aspassia Daskalopoulou lecturer at King’s College, Mike Gapes MP for Ilford South, Bob Stefanowski Chairman of 3i North America, Fanos Charalambous of big smoke media, www.bigsmokemedia.net, Anastasia Spyropoulou elt news, Daniel Dahm researcher at Natural History Museum, Alison Pinner director of services at coin street, www.coinstreet.org, Nick Kyritsis principal of London City College, Barbara Koz Paley of artsassets New York, Tanya belly dancer (at Sofra), Kimasi S K Nehusi at UEL, Eirini Monios at Aquarius, Barbara Bluestone at Ziff-Davis, Jose Antonio Solano Avila director of www.alimentARTspain.com, Jean-Claude Boissel secretere general Ayala Champagne, The Pig Farmer from South Africa (after reading in the Ten Texts (London, 2007): A tribute to pigs from a butcher, he found him and asked him to sign it), Alan Bennett play writer (his customer, he left ‘behind’ the small book: Father! Father! Burning Bright), Marco Allegri young film director (he spoke to him about his father the Italian poet Alfredo Allegri), Giorgos Georgatzis journalist and friend, Edward art dealer (he made him understand the dynamics of countries like Panama, Canada, China & the auction houses like Christie’s and Sotheby’s), Giannis Kostopoulos (he spoke to him about the [Greeks in London] project euGreeca), Christa Nicola beautiful Australian actress, Stamatis Kontsas, Paris Tzedakis friend at UEL, Georgia Megkli, Christos Anagnostopoulos [Kourbas], Roger Ball Ford plant factory cleaner and friend (house tenant for eight years), Robert Harris photographer, Stephen Wright wright media, Habibe Tepe manageress and honest woman, Rob Rattray at UEL, Estelle du Boulay at UEL, Emma Bedford at UEL, Elly Omondi Odhiambo at UEL, Agnieska Sierakowska tourist guide (she spent hours with him, in order to show him Warsaw and talk to him about the Warsaw Ghetto and Pawiak Prison), Andreas Vassilopoulos Mentor, relative and painter, Panagiotis Kondylis Greek-German philosopher and editor (a lonely genius) (Dimitris received a letter from him), Michao and Anetta friends, Panagiotis Falias school friend (he planted a tree at the main park of Athens, Pedion tou Areos, and named it after him: Tree Dimitris), Korhan Kelebek manager, Christos Avgoustinos, Ioannis Roidos [Giannis] friend, Erhan Barut personnel department manager at Sofra, Julie MacDonald head of recruitment and development at Pizza Express HQ, Michael Chronopoulos-Mantas friend in Athens, Vassilis Atzaklis, Vassiliki Daskalaki psychologist, Georgia Dama journalist of Eleftherotypia, Morgan Woolard American model that he met in Athens, George Pagoulatos lecturer in UK, who years later became advisor of the Greek Prime Minister Loukas Papadimos, Christos Yannaras professor at Panteion University, he met him during a book singning at Ikaros bookshop, Daniel Cohn-Bendit the leader of May 1968 in Paris, turned MEP for the German Green Party, Eleni Pavlopoulou Greek painter, Foibos Galatoulas a clever and good young man, Roula Nikolakakou (friend and “atomo” in Athens), Karl Borromaes German teacher and traveler based in Athens, Haris Galinos singer at Elysse Club (Athens) in London, Mema Massou Lytra friend, Lina Massou, Clara Gibson Maxwell dancer and choreographer that he met in Paris, Simone Le Baron activist and blogger, Giorgos Kontogiorgis professor at Panteion University, he met him during a book presentation at Ianos bookshop, and others. Over the years Dimitris Eleas contacted many people via email, phone and letters: Ivana Katsoula (Alyostak) [TW], Tony Blair Prime Minister [TW], Dimitris Avramopoulos Greek political leader, Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Dimitris Tsatsos professor of law, Niki Goulandris, Antonis Samaras Greek political leader, Nikos Bakounakis journalist, Roderick Beaton professor at King’s College, Office of His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Sarantos Kargakos teacher and writer, Nikos Dimou writer and thinker (Dimitris received many letters and emails from him), Petros Euthimiou journalist and minister, Zoe Castoriadis Association Castoriadis, Ioulita Iliopoulou poet and friend of the Nobel winner poet Odysseas Elytis, Teta Papadopoulou journalist (was a personal friend of Cornelius Castoriadis), Stuard Elden professor at Durham University, and others. Some of the best meals in the world gave Dimitris the inspiration for his books, ideas and visual works of collage. Food ingredients for Dimitris are words with taste, and a cooked meal is a ‘syntactical structured world’ in itself: [‘I AM EASILY SATISFIED WITH THE VERY BEST’, SIR Winston CHURCHILL] GB Corner in Grande Bretagne (Athens) www.grandebretagne.gr, The Ritz Restaurant [and The Rivoli Bar] in Ritz Hotel (many times he dined there with the glamorous Emy Halil, London), Zuma in Knightibridge (London), Cipriani in Mayfair (London), The Grill at the Dorchester (The Dorchester Hotel, London), La Tour d’Argent (opened in 1582, with a cellar of 450,000 bottles, each duck that is being served is numbered and the one millionth duck was served in 2003, Paris), L’ Espadon [and The Bar Vendome] in Ritz Hotel (Paris), The Savoy Grill [and The American Bar] in Savoy Hotel (London), Francois Restaurant (Brussels), Cannes Hilton Restaurant (Cannes), Nobu Restaurant in Park Lane (he wrote The Eight Course Meal, London), Beijing Hotel Restaurant (they had a live fish on every table, while in London he had a live fish on every table in his bar, Beijing), Quanjude Restaurant (opened in1864, serves the famous Peking crispy duck, each duck that is being served here is also numbered, Chairman Mao used to dine there, Beijing), Papu Restauracja (Warsaw) and other places.