This Blogger’s faculty adviser, when he got his Masters in Creative Writing at San Francisco State,    was the Greek poet Nanos Valaoritis. He died in 2019, at the age of 98.   He was an extraordinary man; not only a poet, he was a lawyer, novelist,    and translator.     He had spent many years living in Paris and London, during their literary hey days; he knew  T.S. Elliott, W.H. Auden, Dylan Thoma s. Jean-Paul Sartre, Anouilh and Mauriac.   He had returned from Paris and London to live and teach in Athens. That part of his life was aborted when, after the Colonel’s coup, he was  pulled from his classroom, arrested and tortured. ,  The Junta informed him that unless he went into exile, his family, friends and students would be arrested and subject to torture.   The first day in his class, he proclaimed that we would not be studying soap opera; he hated soap opera.   A comely student raised her hand, and asked him, “...