Viktor Zhusti, Ali Pasha Tepelena and Bill Gates

2022-06-08 10:12:46Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA BEN BLUSHI
Viktor Zhusti, Ali Pasha Tepelena and Bill Gates
Viktor Zhusti, photo published by Ben Blushi on Facebook

Viktor Zhusti called me. We met
I want to bring Ali Pasha Tepelena to the theater, he said
Very well I told him, who will write it?
You will write it, said Viktor
I have Ali Pasha as an episodic character, in a novel of mine, but I did not write much about him, I said I
wrote it to you, said Viktori
Babai has made the Cut Head, a novel that shows the days of Ali Pasha's last,
I read it, said Viktori, at the end I told Kiço to turn it into a part for the theater but he did not want to write anymore He was
very tired from the disease and could not write, I said
, said Victor
I do novels but I do not know how to do drama, I said
It's very easy, I do a screenplay then I turn it into drama,
I do not know how to do a script, I said
If you throw something, then we talk, said Victor
I have to stop another project I have in hand, I said
What are you doing, asked Victor
I am working on a picture book, I am experimenting
What do you have characters?
Different, a girl with a headscarf, a priest, Frederik Ndocin, my grandmother, an Afghan, Robert Ndrenikë and maybe you too Do you
know that Bert Ndrenikë and I were in the same class?
I did not know, I told him, I photographed him a month ago
He is lazy, I always tell him come to my house in Greece, we drink wine, we fish, we have the sea 20 meters
Why do you have a house in Greece?
I have in Evia, it is the largest Greek island, after Crete,
Well maybe that's why Bert Ndrenika does not come because his island Corfu is smaller than Evia, you complexed it, I said
No I can hardly move it, said Victor, it has always been so
Do you know that Bill Gates is buying an island in Evia?
I heard it. If I meet him I will talk well about you, fix him take some pictures
Beware of Bill Gates, Victor, they say he has the formula of eternal youth, maybe he will give it to you
too I do not believe there is anything, he has more wrinkles than I
'm moving home to Greece, I asked
My mother was Greek, I inherited her house losing my father's property
But why did my mother and father not have the same property?
They separated when I was born in Greece, in 1942, said Victor
You were born in Greece and how did you end up in Albania?
My parents divorced and my father sent me to Korça to take revenge on my mother in 1945, I was about 3 or 3 years old
. How did he send you to Korça without my mother's permission?
A month after I came to Korça in April 1945 the borders were closed and I remained with my uncle who raised me, while my parents remained in Greece
What bad luck, I said, were you finding your parents later?
I only talked to my father on the phone in 1976, he was in America, I only remember his voice, he spoke like Fan Noli, he told me my dear Devil how are you, and I said to him, Happy father, how did you know that I am a Devil? ?
What about the mother?
I went and met him in 1983 in Athens. As soon as she saw me she recognized me by sight
And took her property on the island?
She was married and I bought the rest of the house from my two sisters, which my mother had from another marriage.
What about your father were you rich?
From my father's inherited estate I received $ 400 a month until late until the Tsipras government cut us off
Did you vote for Tsipras?
How did I vote for him, he took away my father's money, along with my homogeneity pension
So in the end what did you get from my father's property?
I got nothing. He left everything to my second wife, my stepmother and she left me nothing out of anger that I joined my
Stubborn mother, I said
Fanatic, said Victor
We will take some pictures, I said
Yes with Ali Pasha whatever we do, Victor asked
I can not promise, I said, without finishing my book with portraits I do not touch anything with my hand
I mean we will not cut off Ali Pasha's head?
We have time, I said
I am 80 years old, said Viktor
Ali Pasha was 82 when he was beheaded, I said
Well, well, I am not writing anything about my life,
I do not make promises to men over 80 years old, I said


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