Haflatoun: Drivelling Plato

New Series

The Oddventures of Haflatoun

Episode VI – Angles and muons

Haflatoun and Victoria Vectra jump on a space plane to Geneva and drop in on CERN, the European particle physics lab, to learn of a sabotage plot and keep the dream of Vectra’s cryogenically frozen grandfather alive.

Episode V – Alchemists and oracles

Haflatoun must abandon Kahka’s oasis of freedom where he has spent weeks reclining against a palm tree feasting on an intoxicating diet of dates, democracy and mangoes. His oracle gives him 24 hours to avert disaster but first he has a date with destiny – and a Brazilian alchemist.

Episode IV – A candle in the political wind

Apathy is like an olive tree. It symbolises a peace of sorts, it grows in relatively arid political climes, its roots run deep, it bends with the wind and it is damn difficult to mobilise. Ask me, I had my shoulder against the trunk of popular indifference for the duration of the presidential elections in Egypt and would it move? Would it budge even a centimetre?

Episode III – Haflatoun needs your vote

Caught between mild delusion and total confusion, Haflatoun abandons the cushioned comfort of an Athenian ‘soul asylum’ (aka psychiatric hospital) and the profound Pandora to return to Cairo and become the Political Apathy Party’s presidential candidate.

Episode II – Major Saga in Guantanamo

Just as he is about to embark on an intrepid quest for the Olympic torch, Haflatoun lands in Guantanamo – rather than Athens – where Socratic irony and a Major Saga save his skin.

Episode I – An Olympic flare

Haflatoun is back and, caught between delusion and general confusion, he resumes his quest on the path to wisdom. In this episode, the self-declared philosopher prince accepts a mission to Athens in search of an old flame.

Old Series

Episode IX – A clean getaway or depleted Gs

Episode VIII – Clearing the mists

Episode VII – 273 hostages in search of a journalist

Episode VI – Miscarriage in the air

Episode V – PAPA is watching

Episode IV – When Titans walked the Earth

Episode III – Deserting ship

Episode II – Urban guerrilla – Cat and mouse

Episode I – The dawn of Haflatoun

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