Why are the souvenirs of my life being kept in an old mansion dating to 1860 in Ermoupolis? Was I from Syros? No. as an infant I was left outside the house of a poor shoemaker in Athens, in an old neighborhood of Larissa Station, in 1888. Ermoupolis however, was the world. Good taste and color. Italian and French influences but also a deep love for everything Greek. Two Christian doctrines but good trade relations with Egypt and Turkey. An open society is an example of cosmopolitanism.