tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314448479497631270.post5380128513134464384..comments2023-04-14T15:49:59.069+03:00Comments on Torn Halves: The Suicide of Nikos KerasiotisTorn Halveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05484735405128600839noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314448479497631270.post-82841766563868364692012-05-21T18:57:12.502+03:002012-05-21T18:57:12.502+03:00Read this to 93 yr old mom we agree nothing chang...Read this to 93 yr old mom we agree nothing changes in the rural villages my name is Martha kerasiotis having lived in that area f almost a yr in the 70s all I was considered was a whore. I ran f my life he should havemarthaannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15120805946748368090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314448479497631270.post-79293739803419844242012-05-21T18:47:01.572+03:002012-05-21T18:47:01.572+03:00I am Martha Ann kerasiotis. And was curiously look...I am Martha Ann kerasiotis. And was curiously looking up the kerasiotis river and instead found this story. I lived in that area for one year both my grandfather and his vicious daughter became deathly sick. I did all the work you can imagine but I was still considered a whore because it was raging jealously and backstabbing. I was so moved by this story I read it to my 93 year Los mom and we both agreed they are still the same in Greece in the villages. I never went back to visit Greece. I earned to run a farm but I ran for. The social morales of those idiot villagers and never got over it. This pure man was a victim of his birth and lack of communication.marthaannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15120805946748368090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314448479497631270.post-52572852728087513072011-09-16T13:56:03.496+03:002011-09-16T13:56:03.496+03:00Just want to add, I agree with wholeheartedly with...Just want to add, I agree with wholeheartedly with Christina Markoulaki. You have used the power of words in the best possible way.Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314448479497631270.post-50340814088754778002011-09-16T10:41:50.335+03:002011-09-16T10:41:50.335+03:00You are shocked and that is understandable and mor...You are shocked and that is understandable and more human than a lot of things we have seen lately. Through you, your readers and I have had the opportunity to experience some of the devastation caring people like you feel. You have also managed to provide us with a lot of food for thought about societal attitudes and prejudice. Simply because of this, I think that you have offered something valuable to the blogging community and to Nikos, especially. All of us think about him today because of your initiative to put your thoughts in writing. <br /><br />And that has made a world of difference....Christina Markoulakihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06460428861771429571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314448479497631270.post-30434295965611321422011-09-15T22:37:12.753+03:002011-09-15T22:37:12.753+03:00Thank you, Christina. I am not sure about the idea...Thank you, Christina. I am not sure about the idea of honour. Partly for me I felt a pressing need to create something to focus on that was not horrifying, because although I was not the one who found Nikos, I heard the graphic description of the scene, and the appalling violence of it is utterly, utterly shocking. How a man who - as far as I know - never hurt anyone, and who couldn't even bear to let his tomato plants wither and die when he had to go and work on the other side of the mountain, could suddenly ...<br />There is something here palpably beyond words - something that makes all the words suddenly seem futile. It is horrifying (and that word itself suddenly seems lame). And yet it is only with words that I feel I can stop the horror from blotting everything out. Everything.Torn Halveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05484735405128600839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314448479497631270.post-2113273046105563012011-09-15T21:26:46.057+03:002011-09-15T21:26:46.057+03:00I am deeply touched by what you have written and I...I am deeply touched by what you have written and I totally agree with the previous comments of the other readers. Nikos deserved this kind of long- overdue 'honour', a concept that was of special significance in his life.Christina Markoulakihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06460428861771429571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314448479497631270.post-33018069878809665672011-09-15T01:11:23.830+03:002011-09-15T01:11:23.830+03:00You are right, Eleni, that as well as being a terr...You are right, Eleni, that as well as being a terrible personal loss, it is also a loss to the community around here. The strange thing was that whenever you met Nikos on the dusty road he was always so cheerful. And if there was anyone here who could have taken a lead in sorting things out in this chaotic valley, it was him.Torn Halveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05484735405128600839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314448479497631270.post-83536124187398122011-09-15T00:08:08.313+03:002011-09-15T00:08:08.313+03:00a profound insight and a post-mortem eulogy to the...a profound insight and a post-mortem eulogy to the person that seems now more than ever to capture the hazy old Greece I am so missing. A writing masterpiece that can and should be used in classes for students of various levels. THANK YOU. From the bottom of my heart for making me feel the appropriate melancholy of a human as well as a societal loss. God bless his soul.Eleni Pi.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08363129671648944149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314448479497631270.post-71126799402605522912011-09-13T12:38:40.467+03:002011-09-13T12:38:40.467+03:00Thank you, James.Thank you, James.Torn Halveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05484735405128600839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5314448479497631270.post-39051418610725904902011-09-13T01:41:35.371+03:002011-09-13T01:41:35.371+03:00This is a moving elegy for a decent man, and for t...This is a moving elegy for a decent man, and for this reader, at least, an eye-opener on social attitudes that seem to belong (and should) to another age. I found it profoundly affecting. A great, intelligent piece of writing. Thank you for sharing this.James Hadleyhttp://quintessence-of-dust.co.uknoreply@blogger.com