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The choice is easy for these women ; life must prevail over death : - a fifteen year old widowed daughter must be freed from her living death , her shadow life ; a living father - in - law is more important than a dead husband .
The choice is easy for these women ; life must prevail over death : - a fifteen year old widowed daughter must be freed from her living death , her shadow life ; a living father - in - law is more important than a dead husband .
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142 ) and even provides them ( and us also ) with a glimpse into what happened after the anagnorisis in King Oedipus : [ I ] n that first day , when my soul was seething , and my darling wish was for death , aye , death by stoning ...
142 ) and even provides them ( and us also ) with a glimpse into what happened after the anagnorisis in King Oedipus : [ I ] n that first day , when my soul was seething , and my darling wish was for death , aye , death by stoning ...
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He says : Howbeit of this much am I sure , that neither sickness nor aught else can destroy me ; for never had I been snatched frorn death , but in reserve for some strange doom . Nay , let my fate ( moira ) go whither it will : ( K.O. ...
He says : Howbeit of this much am I sure , that neither sickness nor aught else can destroy me ; for never had I been snatched frorn death , but in reserve for some strange doom . Nay , let my fate ( moira ) go whither it will : ( K.O. ...
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Mindscripts | 21 |
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