Even if some people really did use “radiki” in their slang for a pine tree or a rock, we don’t need such obscure interpretations to grasp the deeper meaning of the lyric. And “radiki = radiki” works perfectly well for me personally.
Needless to say, we’re covered.
As well as by the fact that the hashish dens of interwar Piraeus flourish “under the mallow”
Hmm, and beneath the tomato, what do concretisation and rationalisation entail?
Who mentioned rationalisation? Whatever fits under a chicory (e.g. the good ones, who fit everywhere) also fits under a tomato.
Why does it have to make sense? Personally, I like this reading precisely because it’s literal but absurd.
In an attempt to make sense of it, in #19 I was met with, according to Th. Drakos, radiki = rock, and according to Petropoulos, radiki = pine.
Also, in #21, there was what seemed to me to be the equation: mallow = a hashish den in interwar Piraeus.
That’s why I also asked about the tomato—what, I wonder, is the correct interpretation of it, so that we don’t mistakenly picture a black-eyed woman so tiny that she could fit underneath it.
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Under the mallow (the herb) is the cave…
All right, that is where the correct equation lies (mallow = cabbage growing above caves, etc.), but the comment was about constructing an equation in general, not about which equation it is.