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My sister lsmene, accursed twin

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of the line of Oedipus,
do you know of some form,

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some labyrinth, some shame,
or some useless labor,

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that the father of the earth
has not yet sent

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to us, who are stranded here?

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In the long war,
one among many,

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our brother Eteokles died for us.
In the tyrant's service,

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he died young.
Polyneikes was even younger

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when he saw his brother trampled under
the hooves of the war-horse. In tears

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he fled from the unfinished battle.
For others another decision

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is made by the spirit of battle,
when with a hard

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blow with his right
he unnerves his hand. Now

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the fugitive lurches forward until he has crossed
the Dirsean river, breathing a sigh of relief

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at the sight of Thebes, his seven-gated city,
when he is suddenly seized

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by blood-spattered Kreon, who killed
his brother, standing behind them,

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lashing them all into his battle,
and he is slaughtered.

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Have they told you or
haven't they told you

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of the latest insults to be
heaped on Oedipus'

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dwindling children?

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I haven't been to the market,
Antigone.

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I've heard no news of our loved ones,

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neither loving words nor sad words

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and I'm not happier and I'm not sadder.

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Then hear the news from me
and if your heart

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stands still or pounds too hard,

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because it's broken,
then tell me so.

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Gather your grey dust.
It seems you'd paint me

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blood-red words.

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Here it is: our two brothers

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both dragged into Kreon's war
for the grey iron ore

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of distant Argos,
and both killed,

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are not both to be buried
in the earth.

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Of course the fearless hero of
the battlefields, Eteokles,

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shall, it is understood, be honored
and buried according to custom.

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But the other, Polyneikes,
who died in disgrace,

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it is now said of his body,
and it has been made known

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in the city, that no one

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shall make a grave for him
or mourn for him.

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He is to be left
unmourned and unburied,

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as a sweet meal
for the vultures. And he who

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does something about it
is to be stoned to death.

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Well, tell me, what are you
going to do about it?

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What are you doing,
sister, testing me?

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To see if you'll help me.

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In what danger?

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To bury him.

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He, who was denounced by the city?

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He, whom the city has renounced.

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He, who caused the revolt!

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Yes, my brother and yours.

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Sister, they'll catch you defenseless.

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But they won't
catch me faithless.

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Poor thing.  What drives you
to drive down to destruction

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the last of Oedipus's children?
Forget the past.

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Because you are younger you've seen

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less horror.  When
we forget the past

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the past returns.

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And think of it this way:
we're women

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who haven't the strength
to fight against men

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and therefore we're obedient in this

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and in some things even
harder.  Therefore

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I ask the dead and the oppressed

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to forgive me.  When
force is used against me,

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I obey the authorities.
What's the sense,

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of committing useless actions?

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I won't ask you again.

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Follow someone who
gives orders. And do

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what you are ordered. But I

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am following the custom and
burying my brother.

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And if I die for it? So
what? I'll rest in peace

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among the peaceful. And I'll have left

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something holy behind me.
I prefer to make

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friends in the underworld

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for I will live there forever.
As for you,

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laugh at shame and live.

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Antigone, bitterly

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hard as it is to live
in disgrace, still

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even the salt tears stop.
They don't flow

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from the eyes forever.
The executioner's ax

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puts an end to life's sweetness,
but for the survivor

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it opens the slow veins of pain.
He can't stop screaming

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yet even while screaming, he hears

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the birds swooping above him

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and sees through curtains of tears

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the familiar elms and rooftops of home.

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I hate you. How shamelessly you
show me the tattered apron of

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your sentimentality? Right now,

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on the naked stones,
the flesh of your flesh

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is laid out under the wide sky
for the vultures.

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But you think that was yesterday.

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No, I'm not good enough just to offer
myself as a sacrifice, nor willful enough.

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And I'm afraid of you.

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Don' t give me advice!
Live your life.

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But let me at least do what
I can to honor those of us

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who have been shamed.
I'm not so

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particular, I hope,
that I couldn't bear

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to die an unbeautiful death.

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Go on and gather your dust.
What you say is wrong but

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it's said in love, and beloved.

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The wagons of booty are coming!

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The victory loaded with
plunder to make Thebes

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forget the war.

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In the temples of all the gods,

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come out! And sing all
night the choral songs.

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For Thebes is crowned with laurel

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and the Feast of Bacchus reigns...

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But he who won us the victory,

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Kreon, Menokeus' son, he comes

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from the battlefield with news
of the booty and promises us

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at last the return of the soldiers,
for which he has ordered

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and called together a council
of the Elders of Thebes.

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Gentlemen, tell the world: Argos

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is finished.
The reckoning was

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total. From the eleven cities,

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only a few escaped, only the fewest.

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It is said of Thebes that when she's lucky

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she'll be luckier.  But misfortune
has not weakened you

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rather you have weakened misfortune.
The thirst of our bloodthirsty weapons

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was quenched by the first taste
of blood, but we did not deny them

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repeated refreshment.
On a rough resting place,

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Thebes, you have laid down the men
of Argos. Without a city, without a grave,

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out in the open, lies
that which defied you.

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Look over there where
their city once stood!

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There you'll see dogs
with shining faces.

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The greatest vultures
circled her, screaming

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from corpse to corpse

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but the meal was so rich

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that the overfed birds couldn't
rise from the ground.

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Lord, you paint a pretty picture
of great power

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and the city will love it
when you deliver it

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and you cleverly add one more
thing: the wagons of plunder

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that drive through
the streets full of our own men.

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Soon, friends, soon! But first
to business! You haven't yet

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seen me hang the ceremonial
sword in the temple.

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You see, I have for
two reasons called

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you together: first,
because I know

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that you will not count the costs
when it comes to oiling the wheels

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of the man-mangling war-machine,
any more than you deny him

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the blood of your sons in battle.
However,

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when they return, exhausted to
the comforts of home,

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there is too much counting
in the markets. Therefore,

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give me your quick assurance that
the casualty lists of Thebes

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do not exceed the customary
expectations. And also,

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because the people of Thebes are
always too quick to forgive, now

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that the danger is over, they
come here to wipe the sweat off

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the homecoming hero without

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asking whether that sweat is
the sweat of the fever of

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battle or only the cold
sweat of fear, mixed with

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the dust of desertion.
Therefore, I have buried,

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and I ask you to approve it,
Eteokles

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who died for the State,
with honors and laurels.

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But Polyneikes the coward,
to Eteokles

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and to me abhorrent and
friend to the people of Argos,

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he shall lie unburied, as
bare as this lies here.

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He was the enemy:
my enemy and Thebes'.

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And therefore I want no mourning.

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I want him to be left
with no tomb, unburied

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to be devoured, as a meal,
by dogs and vultures.

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If, instead of the greater
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anyone should prefer life,
I have no respect for the man.

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But he who serves
my State, dead or

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alive, I'll praise him either way.

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I hope you approve this.

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We approve it.

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And will you be responsible for
carrying out the orders?

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A job like that is for the younger men.

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Not this job. The watch for
the dead has started already.

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And are we to keep
watch for the living?

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Yes, because there are
some who are dissatisfied.

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There's no one here that's
fool enough to risk his life.

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Not openly.
But many

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have shaken their heads
until they lost them...

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which brings me to this:
we must do more.

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The State must be cleansed...

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I got here as fast as I could,
out of breath

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to bring the message swiftly
to our leader. Don't ask me why

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I couldn't make it any faster.
My feet got ahead of my head or

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my head raced on and
dragged my feet behind, yet

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no matter how tired I got,
or how long I was

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in the sun, out of breath, still

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I kept going.

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I'm not holding anything back,
so I ask myself why not say it

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right out, since I didn't do it?

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And I don't know anything.
I don't even know

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who did it to you. For me
to draw conclusions

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when I know so little
wouldn't mean a thing.

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Your innocence, my ambitious
messenger, won't win you medals

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for swift footwork.

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You entrust your guards
with great power. But

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the exercise of great power
comes with great fatigue.

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Tell me your news and get out of here.

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I'll tell you my news.
The body, just now,

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someone buried it. Someone who
evaded us, over the body sprinkled

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dust, so that
the vultures can't see him.

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What? Who would dare undertake it?

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I don't know. There was
no mark of a spade,

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no sign of the use of a shovel.
And the smooth ground

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showed no wheel-marks. No sign

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of the culprit. Wasn't a real grave,

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just some soft dust, as if
breaking your law didn't

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involve kicking up a lot of dirt.

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But there were no animal tracks.

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Not even a dog had come
to tear and devour.

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What the first light of day showed us

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struck us as unholy.
And the lot fell to me

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to bring our leader the message,

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and nobody loves
the bearer of bad news.

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O Kreon, son of Menokeus,
can it be

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that something holy
has happened here?

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Stop that! Don't make me
angrier yet by saying

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that the spirits
pamper the cowards

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who would cooly allow
the desecration

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of the pillars of their city's
temples and sacrifices!

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There are some in the city who hold
certain things against me and boast

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that they will
not bow to my will.

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I know all about it,

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they do it with bribes and presents.

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Of all things graven,

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there is nothing as evil
as silver.  It corrupts

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whole states. It lures
men from their homes

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to practice every kind of godless action.

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But I tell you, if you don't deliver
the person who did this, in human form,

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alive, bound to a board, and
delivered, you will be hanged

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and enter hell with
a rope around your neck.

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Then you'll learn
how rewards are earned.

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Stop plundering each other and realize

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that not all things
are made for profit.

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Sir, a man in my position has
a lot to be afraid of.

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There are too many
roads that lead to him,

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being just a nobody whom you
threaten.  I'm less afraid

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at the moment -- well, always
a little afraid --

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of being accused of
accepting bribes -- though

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if you suspect me,
I'll turn my purse inside out

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twice, to prove I have nothing --

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than I fear to enrage you
by contradicting you.

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What I'm really afraid of
is that this investigation

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will get me a rope around my neck.
The hands of the powerful

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more often provide
my kind with rope

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than with silver,
as you well know.

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Are you asking me riddles,
you transparent fool?

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The dead man was of high rank
and must have high-ranking friends.

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Then go for their ankles if you

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can't reach any higher! I know that
there are troublemakers everywhere.

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There are several who shudder to hear

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of my victory and place the laurel wreath

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with fear and trembling.
I'll find them out.

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It's an unhealthy spot,
where the mighty have

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gotten into the hair
of the mighty!  I

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think -- I'm still here.
I wonder why.

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There is much that is
monstrous. But nothing

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more monstrous than a human being.

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Only he goes out at night

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on the sea. While
against the winter blows

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the south wind, he ventures out

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in winged whistling houses.

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And the earth below the Heavens,

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the unspoilable and the untiring,

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his ambitious plows tear it up,

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as year after year

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he drives his horses over the land.

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He traps and hunts
the gently fashioned birds

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and the wild beasts

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and the wide seas'
salt-nourished life,

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with craftily slung nets,

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the skillful man.

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With cunning he catches the wild things

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that forage at night in the hills.

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He yokes the rough-maned stallion

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by the neck, and
also the untamed ox

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that roams through the hills.

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And speech and the airy flight

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of thoughts and the laws
that order the State,

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he has mastered -- and to
avoid the polluted swamp air

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and how to come in from
the rain, he knows it all

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and yet all is unknown.
He comes to nothing.

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He always has advice,
nothing is advisable for him.

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Though all things are without borders for him,

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a limit has been set on him.

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For he who finds none,

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becomes his own enemy.
As though he were an ox,

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he yokes the neck of humanity,
but humanity

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tears it off.
If he advances,

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he steps across the bodies of
his own people. His own stomach,

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he cannot fill alone.
But he builds a wall

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around his own property
and the wall:

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it must be torn down!
Open the roof

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to the rain!
He counts what is human

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as nothing at all.
He has become

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his own monster.

291
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O, I am tempted by heaven

292
00:25:41,333 --> 00:25:45,333
not to admit that I know

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00:25:45,583 --> 00:25:48,917
her. It isn't she.
Antigone,

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unfortunate child of an unfortunate

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father, Oedipus' child,
what brings you

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00:25:57,708 --> 00:26:02,333
to this place as a criminal

297
00:26:04,458 --> 00:26:06,792
under the laws of the State?

298
00:26:07,083 --> 00:26:09,875
Here she is. She did it.
We caught her

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00:26:10,125 --> 00:26:12,792
as she made the grave.
Where's Kreon?

300
00:26:14,958 --> 00:26:17,542
He's there, coming out of the house.

301
00:26:23,583 --> 00:26:27,000
What are you bringing her here for?
Where did you catch her?

302
00:26:27,292 --> 00:26:30,750
She made the grave.
Now you know everything.

303
00:26:31,958 --> 00:26:35,292
I hear your words clearly.
But did you yourself see it?

304
00:26:35,542 --> 00:26:38,958
Just as she started the grave,
against your orders.

305
00:26:39,875 --> 00:26:43,667
When you're lucky
you can speak clearly.

306
00:26:44,875 --> 00:26:46,958
So you had ought to...
give me the story.

307
00:26:47,333 --> 00:26:51,250
After I left you, as you
made those terrible threats,

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00:26:51,500 --> 00:26:54,000
we wiped the dust off the body,

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00:26:54,250 --> 00:26:57,750
which was putrefying
already and we sat

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on a hill where there
was air, because the smell

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00:27:01,250 --> 00:27:04,000
of the dead man was
strong. And we agreed

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00:27:04,250 --> 00:27:06,792
that if we got sleepy we'd wake
each other with a poke

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of the elbows.
Suddenly we opened

314
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our eyes,
because a sudden

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warm wind
lifted the mist from the ground

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in a whirlwind
which concealed the valley,

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00:27:20,208 --> 00:27:24,042
tearing the hair of the woods
into the valley, filling

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the air with fog so that
we had to blink

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yes, that was it, and
rub our eyes. It was then

320
00:27:33,208 --> 00:27:36,625
that we saw her standing there crying out

321
00:27:36,875 --> 00:27:39,833
in a sharp voice like a bird that mourns

322
00:27:40,083 --> 00:27:43,042
when it sees the empty
nest without young ones.

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00:27:43,292 --> 00:27:46,417
She wailed because she saw
the dead man naked

324
00:27:46,667 --> 00:27:49,458
and she spread the dust over him
again out of the iron jug.

325
00:27:49,708 --> 00:27:51,958
She sprinkled dust over the dead man

326
00:27:52,208 --> 00:27:55,208
three times.  We ran and held her

327
00:27:55,458 --> 00:27:58,583
and she didn't resist.
And we accused her

328
00:27:58,958 --> 00:28:01,875
of these present things that
we have witnessed.

329
00:28:02,125 --> 00:28:04,875
But she denied nothing and was

330
00:28:05,125 --> 00:28:08,917
gentle toward me and
sad at the same time.

331
00:28:10,292 --> 00:28:14,250
Do you admit or do you deny that
you did it?

332
00:28:15,333 --> 00:28:19,458
I say that I did it and
I don't deny it.

333
00:28:20,375 --> 00:28:22,458
Now tell me, and be brief:

334
00:28:23,917 --> 00:28:26,458
Are you aware of
what was announced

335
00:28:26,708 --> 00:28:29,250
in the open city about
this particular corpse?

336
00:28:30,792 --> 00:28:35,042
I knew it. How could I help it?
It was clear enough.

337
00:28:37,083 --> 00:28:40,333
And yet you dared to break my law?

338
00:28:40,708 --> 00:28:44,625
Just because it was
your law, a human law,

339
00:28:44,875 --> 00:28:48,792
that's why a human being
may break it -- and I am

340
00:28:49,042 --> 00:28:53,333
just as human as you and only
slightly more mortal.  And if

341
00:28:53,583 --> 00:28:57,292
I die before my time, I think
it's because it has its

342
00:28:57,542 --> 00:29:01,458
advantages. When you've
lived the way I have,

343
00:29:01,708 --> 00:29:05,500
surrounded by evil,
isn't there some

344
00:29:05,750 --> 00:29:07,917
slight advantage in death?

345
00:29:08,167 --> 00:29:10,750
And further, if I had let my mother's

346
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,042
dead son lie unburied,

347
00:29:15,917 --> 00:29:18,583
that would have made me unhappy.

348
00:29:18,792 --> 00:29:20,542
But this

349
00:29:20,833 --> 00:29:25,167
does not make me unhappy.
And if I seem crazy to you

350
00:29:25,417 --> 00:29:28,792
because I fear the judgement
of heaven which hates

351
00:29:29,042 --> 00:29:32,792
the bared sight of mangled bodies

352
00:29:33,042 --> 00:29:37,125
and I don't fear your judgement,
then let a crazy

353
00:29:37,375 --> 00:29:39,833
judge judge me.

354
00:29:40,250 --> 00:29:44,958
Tough child of a tough father:

355
00:29:46,083 --> 00:29:50,333
she hasn't learned how
to be cautious.

356
00:29:50,583 --> 00:29:53,417
The toughest iron,
tempered in the ovens,

357
00:29:53,667 --> 00:29:56,583
yields and loses its

358
00:29:56,833 --> 00:30:00,083
stubbornness.
It happens every day.

359
00:30:00,625 --> 00:30:06,208
But this one here enjoys
making fun of the laws of the land.

360
00:30:06,708 --> 00:30:09,458
And to top this
impertinence: now that

361
00:30:09,708 --> 00:30:13,542
she's done it, she laughs
about it and boasts

362
00:30:13,792 --> 00:30:17,583
that she's done it. I hate that:
when somebody's caught

363
00:30:17,833 --> 00:30:21,083
in a crime and tries
to make it look pretty.

364
00:30:22,583 --> 00:30:26,333
And yet, though she insults me
in spite of our family ties

365
00:30:26,583 --> 00:30:29,750
I'll be slow to condemn her
because of our family ties.

366
00:30:30,583 --> 00:30:34,583
Therefore I ask you:
since you did it in secret

367
00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:38,500
and now it's out in the open,
wouldn't you say,

368
00:30:39,375 --> 00:30:43,583
to avoid severe punishment, that
you're sorry you did it?

369
00:30:51,458 --> 00:30:53,958
Tell me why you're so stubborn.

370
00:30:54,208 --> 00:30:56,625
To set an example.

371
00:30:57,292 --> 00:30:59,792
Doesn't it matter to you
that I have you in my hands?

372
00:31:00,042 --> 00:31:03,000
What more can you do to me, since
you have me, than kill me?

373
00:31:03,250 --> 00:31:06,542
Nothing more. But
having this, I have all.

374
00:31:07,167 --> 00:31:10,250
What are you waiting for?
What you're saying,

375
00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:14,458
I don't like it and I won't like
what you're going to say.

376
00:31:14,833 --> 00:31:18,500
And I know you don't like me either.

377
00:31:18,750 --> 00:31:22,708
Though there are those who do,
because of what I did.

378
00:31:23,042 --> 00:31:26,417
So you think there are others
who see things as you do?

379
00:31:26,667 --> 00:31:30,792
They see it too and
they are moved by it.

380
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,667
Aren't you ashamed to claim
their support without asking?

381
00:31:34,917 --> 00:31:37,958
There's nothing wrong in
honoring my brother.

382
00:31:38,208 --> 00:31:41,125
But the one who dies for
his country was also your brother.

383
00:31:41,375 --> 00:31:45,292
Yes. Of the blood.
We are all of one family.

384
00:31:45,542 --> 00:31:48,917
And the coward?  Do you love him
as much as the other?

385
00:31:49,167 --> 00:31:53,458
He who was not your slave
is dearer to me than a brother.

386
00:31:53,708 --> 00:31:57,708
Of course, if good and evil
are the same as one another.

387
00:31:57,958 --> 00:32:02,042
The things are not the same:
to die for you or to die for one's country.

388
00:32:02,292 --> 00:32:03,958
Wasn't there a war?

389
00:32:04,208 --> 00:32:06,167
Yes, your war.

390
00:32:06,458 --> 00:32:07,375
Not the country's?

391
00:32:08,083 --> 00:32:11,500
A strange country.
It wasn't enough for you

392
00:32:11,750 --> 00:32:14,875
to rule over the brothers in their own city.

393
00:32:15,125 --> 00:32:17,042
How beautiful Thebes was

394
00:32:17,292 --> 00:32:20,958
when we lived in peace and unafraid
under the trees.  But you

395
00:32:21,208 --> 00:32:25,583
had to drag them all the way to Argos,

396
00:32:25,833 --> 00:32:31,250
so you could rule over them there too.
And you turned them into the butcher

397
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,458
of peaceful Argos. But the scared one

398
00:32:36,958 --> 00:32:42,292
you lay out to feed the vultures
and frighten his loved ones.

399
00:32:44,417 --> 00:32:47,500
I advise you to say nothing.
Don't say anything

400
00:32:47,750 --> 00:32:51,500
to defend her. If you know
what's good for you.

401
00:32:53,875 --> 00:32:58,625
But I will appeal to you,
for if you help me in my trouble

402
00:32:58,875 --> 00:33:04,292
it will help you later.
The man who's after power is like

403
00:33:05,167 --> 00:33:10,625
the thirsty man who drinks salt-water;
he can't hold it in,

404
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:16,875
but he has to have more. Yesterday
it was my brother.  Today it is I.

405
00:33:20,375 --> 00:33:24,083
I am waiting to see who stands by you.

406
00:33:29,333 --> 00:33:33,208
And you take it and let him shut you up.

407
00:33:33,458 --> 00:33:35,792
It will be remembered.

408
00:33:36,042 --> 00:33:38,208
She's keeping accounts!

409
00:33:39,583 --> 00:33:43,458
Dissension. That's what
she wants under the Theban roof.

410
00:33:43,708 --> 00:33:47,958
You who cry for unity live by conflict.

411
00:33:48,208 --> 00:33:52,333
I live by conflict here and
on the Argive battlefield.

412
00:33:52,583 --> 00:33:57,500
That's right. That's how it is.
Anyone who uses power against

413
00:33:57,750 --> 00:34:01,917
his enemy will turn and use
power against his own people.

414
00:34:02,167 --> 00:34:05,583
It seems the dear girl wouldn't
grudge me to the vultures.

415
00:34:05,833 --> 00:34:10,250
And what if Thebes fell,
through our conflict

416
00:34:10,750 --> 00:34:12,792
to be devoured by the invaders?

417
00:34:13,042 --> 00:34:18,083
The men in power always threaten us
with the fall of the State.

418
00:34:18,417 --> 00:34:23,417
It will fall by dissension,
devoured by the invaders?

419
00:34:23,667 --> 00:34:29,208
And so we give in to you, and give
you our power, and bow down

420
00:34:29,458 --> 00:34:34,292
and, because of this weakness, the city
falls and is devoured by the invaders.

421
00:34:35,583 --> 00:34:39,750
Are you accusing me of throwing
the city away to be devoured by the enemy?

422
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:44,417
The city threw herself away
by bowing down before you.

423
00:34:44,667 --> 00:34:50,042
Because when a man bows down he
can't see what's coming at him.

424
00:34:50,292 --> 00:34:55,000
He only sees the earth --
and oh! she will get him!

425
00:34:55,250 --> 00:34:59,500
Insult the whole earth, you
monster, insult your country!

426
00:34:59,750 --> 00:35:04,750
Wrong. Earth is an ordeal.
But my country is not only

427
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,500
the earth, or a house built by sweat,

428
00:35:09,750 --> 00:35:14,292
not that house standing
helplessly in the path of the fire,

429
00:35:14,583 --> 00:35:19,708
not a place where I can't hold my head up.
I claim that's not my country.

430
00:35:24,917 --> 00:35:28,458
Your country no longer
claims you as her own,

431
00:35:28,958 --> 00:35:33,792
but throws you out like filth
that dirties all it touches.

432
00:35:35,583 --> 00:35:39,500
Who throws me out?
There are less

433
00:35:39,750 --> 00:35:44,667
in the city, since you rule it.
And there will still be less.

434
00:35:44,917 --> 00:35:48,917
Why do you come alone?
You left with many.

435
00:35:49,125 --> 00:35:50,792
Who's missing?

436
00:35:51,042 --> 00:35:55,000
Where are the youngsters?
The men? Aren't they coming back?

437
00:35:55,250 --> 00:35:58,083
How she lies!
Everyone knows: to clear

438
00:35:58,333 --> 00:36:01,583
the battlefields of the last weapons,
they stayed behind.

439
00:36:01,833 --> 00:36:05,458
And to do your last mischief

440
00:36:05,708 --> 00:36:09,500
and become a horror,
till their own fathers

441
00:36:09,750 --> 00:36:13,042
wouldn't recognize them when

442
00:36:13,292 --> 00:36:16,042
they are finally killed
like beasts of prey.

443
00:36:16,250 --> 00:36:17,583
She's insulting the dead!

444
00:36:17,792 --> 00:36:23,167
How stupid you are!
I'm in no mood for winning arguments.

445
00:36:24,958 --> 00:36:29,583
Pity her,
take no account of her words.

446
00:36:30,417 --> 00:36:33,958
When have I ever concealed
the sacrifice made for victory?

447
00:36:34,292 --> 00:36:37,375
But you in your ravings,
don't let your tragedy make you

448
00:36:37,583 --> 00:36:40,458
disparage Thebes' glorious victory.

449
00:36:40,667 --> 00:36:43,083
But she doesn't want

450
00:36:43,292 --> 00:36:47,250
the people of Thebes to live
in the house of Argos. She'd rather

451
00:36:47,792 --> 00:36:49,417
see Thebes destroyed.

452
00:36:49,667 --> 00:36:54,792
We would sit better
in the ruins of our own city,

453
00:36:55,042 --> 00:36:59,958
and more safely, than with you
in the enemies' houses.

454
00:37:00,208 --> 00:37:03,292
There, she said it!
You heard it.

455
00:37:03,583 --> 00:37:08,292
She breaks every law,
knows no limits, like a guest,

456
00:37:08,542 --> 00:37:12,250
reluctant to leave whom
one hopes never to see again,

457
00:37:12,458 --> 00:37:16,917
who insolently tampers with his luggage.

458
00:37:17,167 --> 00:37:22,167
I only took what was mine.
And I had to steal that.

459
00:37:22,667 --> 00:37:26,792
You see as far as your nose.
But the State's

460
00:37:27,042 --> 00:37:28,833
divine order, you don't see that.

461
00:37:29,083 --> 00:37:33,125
It may well be divine, but I'd rather

462
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:37,375
that it were human,
Kreon, son of Menokeus.

463
00:37:37,625 --> 00:37:43,292
Get out. You were always our enemy
and even in hell you shall be so;

464
00:37:44,208 --> 00:37:47,792
like the mangled one, you shall
be hated even in hell, you nothing.

465
00:37:48,042 --> 00:37:52,500
Who knows what the customs are down there.

466
00:37:52,750 --> 00:37:55,292
The enemy, even when dead,
does not become a friend.

467
00:37:55,542 --> 00:38:00,583
Of course he does.
I don't live to hate but to love.

468
00:38:02,583 --> 00:38:05,958
Then go to hell if you want love

469
00:38:07,417 --> 00:38:12,625
and love down there. Under my rule,
your kind doesn't live long.

470
00:38:15,917 --> 00:38:19,917
But now Ismene comes

471
00:38:20,167 --> 00:38:23,500
the sweet one, who is for peace.

472
00:38:25,708 --> 00:38:28,208
But with tears awashed,

473
00:38:28,458 --> 00:38:32,542
her face is yet
flushed with pain.

474
00:38:32,792 --> 00:38:36,042
Yes! You! You stay inside.
Get home. I have

475
00:38:36,292 --> 00:38:40,208
brought up two monsters.
A pair of snakes.

476
00:38:41,417 --> 00:38:43,542
Come, out with it.

477
00:38:43,792 --> 00:38:47,417
Did you takes part at the grave,
or are you innocent?

478
00:38:47,750 --> 00:38:52,542
I did it. If my sister will accept me.

479
00:38:53,292 --> 00:38:56,500
I took part too,
and I accept my guilt.

480
00:38:56,750 --> 00:39:00,542
But your sister won't let you.

481
00:39:01,458 --> 00:39:05,250
She didn't want to.
I didn't take her with me.

482
00:39:07,417 --> 00:39:12,083
Fight it out!
I don't bicker over small things.

483
00:39:12,417 --> 00:39:15,708
I'm not ashamed of my sister's misfortune,

484
00:39:15,917 --> 00:39:19,333
and I'm asking her to call me her accomplice.

485
00:39:19,542 --> 00:39:23,000
By all who are beyond the world of matter

486
00:39:23,208 --> 00:39:27,167
and who talk together down in hell:

487
00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:32,083
those who love with words alone,
I do not like.

488
00:39:32,583 --> 00:39:37,292
Sister, not everyone is good
enough for sacrifice,

489
00:39:37,667 --> 00:39:42,125
but even I am good enough for death.

490
00:39:43,500 --> 00:39:47,750
Don't die too abstractly.
Don't meddle in things

491
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:52,208
that are not your business.
My death is enough.

492
00:39:53,292 --> 00:39:57,083
My sister is too strict. I love you.

493
00:39:57,333 --> 00:39:59,792
If she is gone,
what would I have to love?

494
00:40:00,042 --> 00:40:05,083
There's Kreon. Love him.
Be his. I'm leaving you.

495
00:40:05,875 --> 00:40:09,292
Does it amuse my sister to make fun of me?

496
00:40:09,542 --> 00:40:14,917
Maybe it hurts too, and
the cup of my pain runneth over.

497
00:40:15,208 --> 00:40:18,792
But what I said still goes.

498
00:40:19,042 --> 00:40:23,333
That would be nice.
But I've made my decision.

499
00:40:25,167 --> 00:40:29,042
Is it because you did it without me,
that you can die without me?

500
00:40:29,292 --> 00:40:34,625
Be of good cheer and live.
I have a dead soul

501
00:40:35,042 --> 00:40:39,625
and I am only of use to the dead, sister.

502
00:40:40,208 --> 00:40:43,667
These women, I tell you they're all alike:

503
00:40:44,542 --> 00:40:48,125
one of them loses her mind,
and another one follows.

504
00:40:49,167 --> 00:40:51,458
I can't live without her.

505
00:40:51,833 --> 00:40:55,000
We're not talking about her.
She doesn't exist.

506
00:40:56,458 --> 00:41:00,292
But you're killing your own son's bride.

507
00:41:00,542 --> 00:41:03,250
There's more than one field
for a man to plow.

508
00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:06,542
Get ready to die. And so that you'll know

509
00:41:06,792 --> 00:41:09,417
exactly when it's going to happen:
when at the Festival of Bacchus

510
00:41:09,667 --> 00:41:13,500
drunken Thebes invites me to dance. Get

511
00:41:14,167 --> 00:41:16,208
rid of these women.

512
00:42:02,042 --> 00:42:06,625
When you dress up for the victory dances,
don't stamp

513
00:42:06,875 --> 00:42:11,292
on the ground too hard, and
not there where it grows green;

514
00:42:12,375 --> 00:42:17,208
may he who has troubled you,
mighty one, praise you.

515
00:42:24,417 --> 00:42:27,208
Don't drive him down so deep

516
00:42:27,458 --> 00:42:30,125
that he's out of sight,

517
00:42:31,125 --> 00:42:36,625
for he lies in that direction,
on the ground, naked to confront you. His shame

518
00:42:36,875 --> 00:42:40,917
he is resigned to, hideous and horrified,

519
00:42:41,125 --> 00:42:45,792
abandoned to his loss, dehumanized, he remembers

520
00:42:46,292 --> 00:42:51,750
his earlier form and rises and is new.

521
00:42:59,542 --> 00:43:05,958
Patiently the brothers of Lachmyia
sat in their fire-gutted house.

522
00:43:06,250 --> 00:43:10,333
rotting away, they earned their
living by weaving; each winter

523
00:43:10,583 --> 00:43:15,000
the ice froze over them,
and their women didn't live there,

524
00:43:15,583 --> 00:43:20,167
didn't live there at night,
but furtively sat around all day

525
00:43:20,417 --> 00:43:25,250
in their scarlet cloaks. And always

526
00:43:25,542 --> 00:43:29,917
the threatening cliff beckoned to them.

527
00:43:31,583 --> 00:43:34,125
But not until Peleas

528
00:43:34,375 --> 00:43:39,083
came, dividing them with his sceptre,
parting them, touching them

529
00:43:39,333 --> 00:43:43,500
ever so lightly, could they rise up...

530
00:43:44,792 --> 00:43:47,833
and kill their oppressors.

531
00:43:49,333 --> 00:43:54,417
for that was the last straw for them,
for often the sum of misery

532
00:43:54,667 --> 00:43:58,792
must only be rounded out by a fraction;
and then the blind sleep,

533
00:43:59,042 --> 00:44:01,917
full of moaning with

534
00:44:02,167 --> 00:44:06,583
prehistoric exhaustion, comes to an end.

535
00:44:06,833 --> 00:44:11,917
Slowly and swiftly, unevenly,
waxes the moon and

536
00:44:12,167 --> 00:44:15,708
wanes,
and all the while

537
00:44:15,917 --> 00:44:19,417
evil is growing, and now

538
00:44:20,458 --> 00:44:24,583
the last light falls on the last root

539
00:44:24,792 --> 00:44:26,667
of Oedipus' house.

540
00:44:26,875 --> 00:44:31,875
And when the great fall, they don't
fall alone; on a great multitude

541
00:44:32,083 --> 00:44:35,125
they fall.  As when, below us

542
00:44:35,375 --> 00:44:38,917
on the Pontian sea, the winds of Thrace

543
00:44:39,167 --> 00:44:43,500
blow wickedly in the salty night

544
00:44:44,125 --> 00:44:49,333
to tear up a hut, and lifted from
the ground, it whirls along the dark

545
00:44:49,583 --> 00:44:52,917
and disheveled shore,

546
00:44:54,333 --> 00:44:59,375
and the groans roar from the stricken coast.

547
00:45:05,792 --> 00:45:12,542
Hamon is coming, your youngest son, dismayed

548
00:45:12,875 --> 00:45:16,208
at the loss of Antigone.

549
00:45:16,792 --> 00:45:20,292
His young bride

550
00:45:21,667 --> 00:45:23,542
lies stricken on her dread bride bed.

551
00:45:24,125 --> 00:45:29,208
Son, there's a rumor you've come

552
00:45:29,750 --> 00:45:34,417
to me for love of that young woman,
not to speak to your ruler,

553
00:45:34,958 --> 00:45:38,625
but to your father, and if that's so

554
00:45:39,833 --> 00:45:43,625
you've come for nothing.
When we returned from the battle,

555
00:45:43,875 --> 00:45:47,458
which went well,
through blood and sacrifice,

556
00:45:48,083 --> 00:45:52,125
she was the only one who did not
welcome us, begrudging our side

557
00:45:52,375 --> 00:45:56,167
the victory.
She busies herself with one matter

558
00:45:56,750 --> 00:45:58,042
and that one rotten.

559
00:45:58,500 --> 00:46:04,083
Nevertheless, I come to you about
this thing and hoping that my father

560
00:46:04,375 --> 00:46:08,292
should not hear with anger,
the familiar voice

561
00:46:08,750 --> 00:46:11,708
which he has fathered, when to the ruler

562
00:46:11,958 --> 00:46:14,417
it is the one that must bring bad news.

563
00:46:14,667 --> 00:46:17,583
When a man brings up fresh children,

564
00:46:17,833 --> 00:46:21,542
it can be said that his bedtime efforts

565
00:46:22,292 --> 00:46:26,625
bring him only the laughter of his enemies.

566
00:46:31,750 --> 00:46:36,500
You govern many people, but if you'll

567
00:46:36,875 --> 00:46:40,208
listen only to good news, don't

568
00:46:40,458 --> 00:46:44,417
lose any more sleep: let go

569
00:46:45,833 --> 00:46:50,375
of the helm, like one
who doesn't want to steer, and drift!

570
00:46:50,625 --> 00:46:55,833
The people are afraid of your name.
Therefore, when big fires

571
00:46:56,667 --> 00:47:01,292
burn, you get small messages.

572
00:47:02,625 --> 00:47:06,792
But there is this advantage to family ties:

573
00:47:07,333 --> 00:47:12,458
we don't hold each other to account
so strictly. And many debts

574
00:47:14,333 --> 00:47:17,833
are readily forgiven, and so we often

575
00:47:18,083 --> 00:47:22,000
hear the truth from members of our family

576
00:47:22,250 --> 00:47:26,625
because we can restrain our anger towards them.

577
00:47:28,458 --> 00:47:32,875
My brother,  Megareus, can't come to tell you

578
00:47:33,667 --> 00:47:37,000
because he fought at Argos and has not come back

579
00:47:37,250 --> 00:47:42,250
and doesn't know what fear is,
so I have to tell you.

580
00:47:43,042 --> 00:47:46,167
Listen: there is deep
dissatisfaction in the city.

581
00:47:46,500 --> 00:47:50,875
You listen:
when my flesh and blood turns rotten,

582
00:47:52,167 --> 00:47:55,583
it nourishes my enemy. The uncommitted man

583
00:47:55,833 --> 00:47:58,375
who doesn't know his mind tastes

584
00:47:58,625 --> 00:48:02,458
dissent in every small annoyance.
One complains of taxes,

585
00:48:02,708 --> 00:48:06,042
another wants an end to conscription --

586
00:48:06,292 --> 00:48:09,250
but I keep them both
separated and in my power

587
00:48:09,500 --> 00:48:12,333
because I have the weapons. But when

588
00:48:12,583 --> 00:48:15,625
there are loopholes and the government

589
00:48:15,875 --> 00:48:19,542
seems divided and wavers
and is indecisive, then

590
00:48:20,125 --> 00:48:23,250
the stone can start rolling until it threatens

591
00:48:23,500 --> 00:48:27,000
the house that's already surrendered.
Speak

592
00:48:27,333 --> 00:48:30,167
but I'll listen only to him
whom I brought up and to whom

593
00:48:30,500 --> 00:48:33,208
I taught the strength of the spear, my son.

594
00:48:33,792 --> 00:48:37,333
There is some truth in everything.
There is a saying:

595
00:48:37,583 --> 00:48:41,708
"Test the strength of thy tongue on
the anvil of truth." She

596
00:48:41,958 --> 00:48:44,875
who didn't want the merciless dogs

597
00:48:45,125 --> 00:48:48,333
to devour her brother: the city

598
00:48:49,500 --> 00:48:53,583
is with her in this. Although they condemn

599
00:48:53,833 --> 00:48:55,667
the dead man's crimes.

600
00:48:55,917 --> 00:48:58,917
It's not enough. I call that weakness.

601
00:48:59,458 --> 00:49:02,958
No, the filth that I've cut off
is not enough.

602
00:49:03,208 --> 00:49:06,458
It must me done in public, so that other filth

603
00:49:06,708 --> 00:49:10,083
will not forget how I cut off the filthy.

604
00:49:13,833 --> 00:49:16,875
But you, knowing little of the case,

605
00:49:17,125 --> 00:49:20,250
knowing nothing, you advise me:
watch your step,

606
00:49:20,500 --> 00:49:23,958
look for alternatives,
talk to them in their terms,

607
00:49:24,333 --> 00:49:27,000
as if authority could sway

608
00:49:27,208 --> 00:49:31,042
the many-bodied masses
to difficult deeds by being

609
00:49:31,292 --> 00:49:35,000
nothing but a small, cowardly ear.

610
00:49:35,333 --> 00:49:38,833
But it saps the strength
to think up cruel punishments.

611
00:49:40,625 --> 00:49:45,417
To crush the curse to earth,
until it curses, requires strength.

612
00:49:45,750 --> 00:49:48,917
But the gentle uses of order can do much.

613
00:49:49,875 --> 00:49:53,125
There are many orders,
but who gives the orders?

614
00:50:02,125 --> 00:50:05,292
Do it your way,
but make it the right way.

615
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:15,458
Not knowing what I know,
you can't know what it is.

616
00:50:17,708 --> 00:50:20,208
Are you my friend no matter how I do it?

617
00:50:20,542 --> 00:50:24,708
I want you to do it so that I can be your friend.

618
00:50:24,958 --> 00:50:28,583
But don't say that you alone
can be right, and no other.

619
00:50:29,417 --> 00:50:33,375
He who cuts himself off from the others has

620
00:50:33,625 --> 00:50:38,083
no thoughts or speech or soul like another, and

621
00:50:40,042 --> 00:50:44,208
if we look inside such a man

622
00:50:45,125 --> 00:50:49,083
we will find him empty --
but another kind of man

623
00:50:49,583 --> 00:50:53,583
if there is such a wise man somewhere,
is not ashamed

624
00:50:53,833 --> 00:50:57,625
to keep on learning and
not carry anything to extremes.

625
00:50:57,875 --> 00:51:02,083
Look, when the rain-swollen brook

626
00:51:02,458 --> 00:51:05,750
gushes past all the tress, how all those that

627
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:10,625
bend are spared, but the unyielding

628
00:51:11,458 --> 00:51:15,083
are broken. Or when a laden ship

629
00:51:15,333 --> 00:51:19,833
spreads out her sails and won't slacken,

630
00:51:20,292 --> 00:51:23,417
bending back from the rower's bench,

631
00:51:23,667 --> 00:51:27,875
how it must end in shipwreck.

632
00:51:30,083 --> 00:51:36,042
Give in -- when the spirit demands it.
Give us change.

633
00:51:36,500 --> 00:51:41,875
And change us. And if we shudder
in our humanity,

634
00:51:42,875 --> 00:51:45,417
then shudder with us.

635
00:51:45,667 --> 00:51:48,083
And the chained, shall we

636
00:51:48,667 --> 00:51:50,875
present ourselves to the slave-driver?
Is that what you want?

637
00:51:52,333 --> 00:51:54,208
And the chained

638
00:51:54,458 --> 00:51:59,042
when the stench of death
reaches their nostrils

639
00:51:59,542 --> 00:52:03,792
the drudgery driven may rise up and wonder

640
00:52:04,583 --> 00:52:08,333
where they are being driven,
and driven so hard,

641
00:52:09,125 --> 00:52:14,042
and drag us all down into the abyss
with all the wheels and chains.

642
00:52:14,875 --> 00:52:18,167
Know that the city is torn by doubts.

643
00:52:18,417 --> 00:52:21,792
What peace threatens, war deranges.

644
00:52:22,042 --> 00:52:25,833
The war is over. Thanks for the instructions.

645
00:52:26,083 --> 00:52:29,708
Then too, in preparation to celebrate the victory,

646
00:52:30,292 --> 00:52:35,167
you intend to purge yourself
in a bloodletting of all those

647
00:52:35,583 --> 00:52:39,292
in your house who have offended you.
This suspicion, I have

648
00:52:39,542 --> 00:52:41,917
often heard.

649
00:52:42,625 --> 00:52:44,042
By whom?

650
00:52:44,833 --> 00:52:47,625
Your reward was here.  Much greater

651
00:52:47,875 --> 00:52:51,875
than if you choose only to be a spokesman,

652
00:52:52,208 --> 00:52:55,292
babbling so suspiciously about suspicion.

653
00:52:55,542 --> 00:52:57,208
Forget them.

654
00:52:58,458 --> 00:53:00,958
Of the virtues of leadership

655
00:53:01,208 --> 00:53:06,625
the most useful is called:
"forgive and forget."

656
00:53:07,792 --> 00:53:10,167
Leave the old to be old.

657
00:53:10,500 --> 00:53:13,083
Since I am so old

658
00:53:13,333 --> 00:53:16,500
I find forgetting difficult.

659
00:53:18,125 --> 00:53:23,250
But you,
couldn't you, if I ask you,

660
00:53:23,833 --> 00:53:26,708
forget her whom you're defending

661
00:53:26,958 --> 00:53:29,458
lest those who long for my downfall whisper,

662
00:53:29,708 --> 00:53:32,292
"He seems to be that woman's comrade."

663
00:53:32,542 --> 00:53:35,083
Not only hers, but of all
that's just, wherever I see it.

664
00:53:35,333 --> 00:53:37,375
Wherever there's a hole in it.

665
00:53:37,625 --> 00:53:42,542
Insults won't stop my concern for you.

666
00:53:42,792 --> 00:53:45,500
Your bed is still empty.

667
00:53:45,750 --> 00:53:48,625
I'd call that stupid if it wasn't
my father that said it.

668
00:53:48,875 --> 00:53:51,875
I'd call that fresh if
it weren't a woman's slave who said it.

669
00:53:52,125 --> 00:53:56,125
Better her slave than yours.

670
00:53:57,542 --> 00:54:00,792
Now it's out and can't be retracted!

671
00:54:01,042 --> 00:54:04,958
And it won't be.
You want to say everything

672
00:54:05,750 --> 00:54:07,208
and hear nothing.

673
00:54:07,458 --> 00:54:09,625
That's how it is. And now get

674
00:54:09,875 --> 00:54:13,667
out of my sight. Go like the coward who

675
00:54:13,917 --> 00:54:16,583
spares himself too, in the hour of decision.

676
00:54:16,875 --> 00:54:18,833
Take that brat away. Quickly.

677
00:54:19,083 --> 00:54:23,000
And I'll get away.
So that you need not look at a man

678
00:54:23,250 --> 00:54:26,958
who is not afraid and makes you tremble.

679
00:54:49,083 --> 00:54:53,250
Sir, he who went out angry is your youngest son.

680
00:54:53,500 --> 00:54:56,667
But he won't rescue those women from death.

681
00:54:56,917 --> 00:55:00,333
Then you're thinking of killing them both?

682
00:55:00,875 --> 00:55:04,292
No, not the one who stayed away, you're right.

683
00:55:04,542 --> 00:55:09,750
And the other one, how will you kill her?

684
00:55:10,750 --> 00:55:14,125
Lead her out of the city,
where now the dances of Bacchus

685
00:55:14,375 --> 00:55:18,875
are lifting the feet of my people.
Put her guilt

686
00:55:19,458 --> 00:55:23,542
away where there are no people to see her,

687
00:55:23,792 --> 00:55:27,667
alive, into a cave in the cliffs.
With millet and wine, the only meal

688
00:55:27,917 --> 00:55:30,792
fit for the dead,
as though she were buried.

689
00:55:31,125 --> 00:55:33,125
Those are my orders.

690
00:55:34,333 --> 00:55:39,208
So that in the end my city shall not bring me shame.

691
00:55:46,625 --> 00:55:51,417
But like the mountains from the clouds
this puts itself now before me,

692
00:55:51,667 --> 00:55:57,042
that this is the hour when
Oedipus' child in her room

693
00:55:57,667 --> 00:56:03,083
hears Bacchus in the distance and
prepares for her last journey.

694
00:56:04,792 --> 00:56:10,542
Now he calls on his people,
always thirsting for pleasure;

695
00:56:10,875 --> 00:56:15,333
and our city woefully gives him
the joyous answer;

696
00:56:15,583 --> 00:56:21,042
for victory is great and Bacchus irresistible.

697
00:56:22,667 --> 00:56:29,042
When he approaches the mourners
he hands them the drink of forgetfulness.

698
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:34,667
And the city discards the black robes
she was sewing to mourn her sons

699
00:56:34,917 --> 00:56:40,750
and runs to the orgy of Bacchus
in search of depletion.

700
00:56:42,875 --> 00:56:46,833
O lusts of the flesh, it is you

701
00:56:47,208 --> 00:56:52,250
who win every battle! Even incestuous lovers

702
00:56:52,500 --> 00:56:57,042
are overwhelmed by your urging.

703
00:56:58,333 --> 00:57:01,917
He never feels empty who gives himself

704
00:57:02,167 --> 00:57:07,583
over to be it, not only to feel it.
Possessed, he is at peace;

705
00:57:08,750 --> 00:57:12,917
and he yields himself to the yoke

706
00:57:13,167 --> 00:57:16,083
and bears his neck, not afraid

707
00:57:16,333 --> 00:57:20,083
of the fumes of the salt-mines
or the ship

708
00:57:20,333 --> 00:57:25,333
with thin walls on the black waters.
Alien skins

709
00:57:25,708 --> 00:57:31,583
he mixes and tosses them
all together, yet never despoils

710
00:57:32,250 --> 00:57:37,500
the bounteous earth with violent hands, but

711
00:57:38,208 --> 00:57:43,667
peacefully from the first act of
creation is companioned with concord

712
00:57:44,042 --> 00:57:48,708
and great conciliations.
Never warlike,

713
00:57:49,667 --> 00:57:53,417
divine beauty joins him in the games.

714
00:57:54,833 --> 00:57:57,833
But now I find myself

715
00:57:58,083 --> 00:58:01,250
losing the rhythm and I can't

716
00:58:01,500 --> 00:58:05,208
hold back the welling of tears for

717
00:58:05,458 --> 00:58:09,583
now Antigone comes to receive

718
00:58:10,500 --> 00:58:13,833
the gifts of earth, the wine and the millet.

719
00:58:15,125 --> 00:58:18,792
Citizens of the city of my fathers--
look at me

720
00:58:19,667 --> 00:58:23,042
take my last steps

721
00:58:23,458 --> 00:58:28,458
and my last look at the sunlight.

722
00:58:29,500 --> 00:58:32,167
And never again?

723
00:58:33,458 --> 00:58:37,750
He beds us all alike, the god of death.

724
00:58:38,417 --> 00:58:40,833
He is leading me alive

725
00:58:41,083 --> 00:58:43,583
to the harbor of his river.

726
00:58:43,833 --> 00:58:47,083
No wedding for me. For me

727
00:58:47,333 --> 00:58:50,375
no wedding-song. Betrothed bride

728
00:58:50,625 --> 00:58:53,375
of the Acheron, I am.

729
00:58:53,833 --> 00:58:58,292
But your going is famous; praises go
with you, as you go

730
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,458
into this death chamber.

731
00:59:03,458 --> 00:59:07,042
No illness consumed you, nor were you
the victim of hard labor for hard wages,

732
00:59:07,292 --> 00:59:11,125
Such terms you would not accept.

733
00:59:11,375 --> 00:59:17,417
Living your own life,
you go living

734
00:59:17,917 --> 00:59:20,917
down into the world of the dead.

735
00:59:22,792 --> 00:59:26,250
Oh no! They're making fun of me!

736
00:59:26,750 --> 00:59:30,083
Yes, of me, and I'm not even dead yet,

737
00:59:30,833 --> 00:59:33,542
and I still see the daylight.

738
00:59:33,792 --> 00:59:37,083
My city! and oh, my city's

739
00:59:37,958 --> 00:59:42,292
wealthy men! You must, yes, must

740
00:59:42,542 --> 00:59:46,500
bear witness for me,
of how and why I go unmourned

741
00:59:46,750 --> 00:59:49,208
by those who love me, and under what

742
00:59:49,458 --> 00:59:52,583
laws into an unmarked grave

743
00:59:52,833 --> 00:59:56,708
I go, into an unheard of grave. I,

744
00:59:57,375 --> 01:00:01,875
who belong
neither to mortal men nor to the shadows

745
01:00:02,125 --> 01:00:05,417
I, who belong to life not to death.

746
01:00:06,208 --> 01:00:08,458
What comes of power,

747
01:00:08,708 --> 01:00:12,000
it doesn't reflect upon. It has lost you,

748
01:00:12,250 --> 01:00:14,292
the knowledge enraged by yourself.

749
01:00:15,083 --> 01:00:18,958
O my father, O my unhappy mother,

750
01:00:19,208 --> 01:00:23,000
of whom I was born in anguish,

751
01:00:23,250 --> 01:00:28,708
and to whom I return cursed,
to lodge without a husband.

752
01:00:29,417 --> 01:00:34,875
O, O my brother,
how sweet life is, and you've lost it.

753
01:00:35,292 --> 01:00:37,958
Me too, I'm all that's left.

754
01:00:38,208 --> 01:00:40,792
Draw me close down to you.

755
01:01:06,792 --> 01:01:10,500
The body of Danae too had

756
01:01:10,792 --> 01:01:13,917
in place of the light of heaven with patience

757
01:01:14,167 --> 01:01:18,125
to endure the iron gate.
She lay in the dark prison,

758
01:01:19,417 --> 01:01:22,750
though she too came of a mighty race, child.

759
01:01:23,875 --> 01:01:26,958
And she counted there, for the creator of time,

760
01:01:27,208 --> 01:01:29,708
the strokes of the hours of gold.

761
01:01:29,958 --> 01:01:34,792
I've heard how pitifully the Phrygian girl,

762
01:01:35,042 --> 01:01:39,250
Tantalos' daughter, died in the tower of Sipylos,

763
01:01:39,625 --> 01:01:44,292
she would become immobile and,
like a stone bent beneath

764
01:01:44,542 --> 01:01:47,208
wreaths of ivy, constricted

765
01:01:47,458 --> 01:01:51,542
in their slow gathering;
and, with her, ever since,

766
01:01:51,792 --> 01:01:55,292
as men say, the winter remains

767
01:01:55,625 --> 01:01:58,833
and her throat is washed

768
01:01:59,083 --> 01:02:01,750
with the snowbright tears of her eyelids.

769
01:02:02,583 --> 01:02:08,000
It may be that I, like her,
go to a sanctified bed.

770
01:02:30,750 --> 01:02:35,125
Her speech is holy, holy born

771
01:02:35,625 --> 01:02:40,542
is she, while we are of this earth,
and earthly born.

772
01:02:42,333 --> 01:02:47,000
Yes. You perish,
but greatness is yours and not

773
01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:50,500
unlike a holy sacrificial victim.

774
01:02:51,250 --> 01:02:55,542
And so you give me up for lost
with a sigh.

775
01:02:55,875 --> 01:03:00,417
How piously you gaze upwards at
the blue heavens, but you don't look

776
01:03:00,667 --> 01:03:04,250
me straight in the eye.
And yet, I've only done

777
01:03:04,500 --> 01:03:07,625
what's holiest of holy.

778
01:03:10,083 --> 01:03:14,792
They caught the son of Dryas loudly

779
01:03:15,042 --> 01:03:18,833
and rapturously protesting
against the injustice of

780
01:03:19,083 --> 01:03:22,792
Dionysus, and with stones

781
01:03:23,625 --> 01:03:28,042
they stoned him to death and
he got to know

782
01:03:29,417 --> 01:03:34,375
in his madness,
with his shrieking voice, God.

783
01:03:34,917 --> 01:03:37,958
And it would be better too, if you

784
01:03:38,208 --> 01:03:42,750
gathered together all the protests
against injustice and dried them

785
01:03:43,167 --> 01:03:49,333
of tears and did something useful
with them. You don't look far enough.

786
01:03:51,500 --> 01:03:55,167
But on the chalky cliffs with

787
01:03:55,417 --> 01:04:00,125
the sea on both sides,
at the mouth of the Bosphorus,

788
01:04:01,292 --> 01:04:07,083
there, near the city,
the war god watched as two

789
01:04:07,333 --> 01:04:10,333
Phineans, who saw all too far,

790
01:04:10,583 --> 01:04:13,625
had their eagle eyes

791
01:04:14,375 --> 01:04:19,333
pierced through with spears,
and they were enveloped in darkness,

792
01:04:20,208 --> 01:04:23,458
the circles of their brave eyes.

793
01:04:25,083 --> 01:04:29,042
For the power of fate is frightful.

794
01:04:29,292 --> 01:04:33,042
Neither riches, nor the war-god,

795
01:04:33,333 --> 01:04:35,333
nor towers escape him.

796
01:04:36,208 --> 01:04:39,833
Don't talk, I beg you, about fate.

797
01:04:40,125 --> 01:04:43,708
I know all about that.  Speak of him

798
01:04:43,958 --> 01:04:47,667
who kills me, an innocent, he

799
01:04:47,917 --> 01:04:51,500
has a visit coming from fate.
Don't think, that is,

800
01:04:51,750 --> 01:04:56,042
that you're safe.
You're really the victims.

801
01:04:56,292 --> 01:04:59,375
More mangled bodies

802
01:04:59,625 --> 01:05:04,417
will be heaped up for you,
unburied as a cairn for those who

803
01:05:04,667 --> 01:05:08,417
are unburied. You, who dragged Kreon's

804
01:05:08,667 --> 01:05:13,125
war across distant frontiers, however many

805
01:05:13,375 --> 01:05:17,625
may be for you happy battles, the last one

806
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:23,333
will destroy you.
You, who called for booty, you will not

807
01:05:23,583 --> 01:05:27,708
see full wagons, but

808
01:05:28,417 --> 01:05:32,583
empty ones. I mourn for you, survivors,

809
01:05:35,292 --> 01:05:38,208
--what you will see

810
01:05:41,333 --> 01:05:46,750
when my eyes will be filled with dust!
Lovely Thebes,

811
01:05:47,958 --> 01:05:52,125
my homeland, my fathers' city!
And you, Dirsean River

812
01:05:52,417 --> 01:05:54,958
that circles Thebes, where the wagons

813
01:05:55,208 --> 01:06:01,083
draw up; oh, you woods!
...my voice falters to say

814
01:06:01,958 --> 01:06:06,542
what will become of you!
You have spawned

815
01:06:06,792 --> 01:06:13,875
the inhuman.
Therefore you must come to dust. Tell

816
01:06:14,708 --> 01:06:18,042
any one who asks about Antigone that you saw

817
01:06:18,333 --> 01:06:21,833
her escape into her grave.

818
01:06:30,500 --> 01:06:35,125
Turned around and went,
with broad steps, as though she led

819
01:06:35,375 --> 01:06:38,958
her guards. Across the plaza there

820
01:06:39,208 --> 01:06:43,167
she went,
where the victory columns had already

821
01:06:43,417 --> 01:06:47,667
been erected.
Then she went faster,

822
01:06:48,333 --> 01:06:49,792
vanished.

823
01:06:57,667 --> 01:07:00,708
But she too once

824
01:07:00,958 --> 01:07:04,917
ate of the bread that was baked

825
01:07:05,167 --> 01:07:08,792
by slaves in the dark cliffs.
In the shade of the prison towers

826
01:07:09,042 --> 01:07:12,792
that shelter sorrow, she sat still
contentedly, till all that had

827
01:07:13,042 --> 01:07:17,667
left the deadly doors of Labdacus' house

828
01:07:18,042 --> 01:07:21,667
re-entered dead. The bloody hand

829
01:07:21,917 --> 01:07:25,292
deals out to each his own, and they

830
01:07:25,667 --> 01:07:28,917
don't just take it, they grab it.

831
01:07:30,750 --> 01:07:35,833
Only thereafter she lay
rebellious in her freedom,

832
01:07:36,417 --> 01:07:38,917
thrust into the good.

833
01:07:39,542 --> 01:07:41,958
The cold awakens her.

834
01:07:43,333 --> 01:07:45,625
Not until the last

835
01:07:45,875 --> 01:07:50,667
of her patience was exhausted and the last

836
01:07:50,917 --> 01:07:54,917
crime measured would Oedipus' unseeing child

837
01:07:55,167 --> 01:07:59,375
remove the customary blindfold from her eyes

838
01:07:59,917 --> 01:08:03,000
to look at the abyss that surrounds her.

839
01:08:05,292 --> 01:08:08,542
Just as blindly now

840
01:08:08,833 --> 01:08:12,708
Thebes lifts its feet and giddily

841
01:08:12,958 --> 01:08:16,875
tastes the victory libation of highly-spiced

842
01:08:17,125 --> 01:08:21,167
herbs concocted in the darkness

843
01:08:22,375 --> 01:08:25,417
and swallows it, and exults.

844
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:32,750
Here comes Tiresias, the blind man,
the seer, driven no doubt

845
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:36,500
by rotten rumors of growing dissension

846
01:08:38,208 --> 01:08:41,333
and the simmering unrest below.

847
01:08:42,208 --> 01:08:46,125
Always go gently, child,
go steadily and be

848
01:08:46,375 --> 01:08:49,042
untroubled by the dancers. You're

849
01:08:49,250 --> 01:08:51,583
leading. Leaders

850
01:08:51,833 --> 01:08:54,042
shouldn't follow Bacchus.

851
01:08:54,833 --> 01:08:58,500
Inevitable is the fall
for he who, too high,

852
01:08:58,750 --> 01:09:01,125
lifts his heels from the ground.

853
01:09:01,375 --> 01:09:06,458
And look out for the
victory-columns. Victory!

854
01:09:06,708 --> 01:09:08,292
they scream in the city,

855
01:09:08,542 --> 01:09:12,083
and the city is full of fools!
And the blind follow

856
01:09:12,333 --> 01:09:16,208
the seeing, but the blind,

857
01:09:17,250 --> 01:09:19,958
one blinder still follows.

858
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:33,250
Why are you mumbling, mutterer,
about the war?

859
01:09:33,583 --> 01:09:38,375
Because you are dancing, fool,
before you have won it.

860
01:09:38,708 --> 01:09:41,167
Stubborn and senile, seeing

861
01:09:41,417 --> 01:09:43,458
what doesn't exist, but

862
01:09:43,708 --> 01:09:46,917
the columns that tower around us,
victorious,

863
01:09:48,083 --> 01:09:49,083
you don't see those.

864
01:09:49,792 --> 01:09:52,500
Can't see 'em. And my reason

865
01:09:52,750 --> 01:09:56,083
is not twisted.
That's why I'm here,

866
01:09:56,333 --> 01:10:00,125
dear friends. Same for the laurel

867
01:10:00,542 --> 01:10:03,917
those thick leaves,
I don't recognize them,

868
01:10:04,958 --> 01:10:07,833
before they are withered and rattle

869
01:10:08,792 --> 01:10:14,583
or I bite into them and taste
the bitterness and I know that's laurel.

870
01:10:14,833 --> 01:10:18,417
You don't like celebrations. That's why

871
01:10:18,667 --> 01:10:21,333
you speak to us with a terrible tongue.

872
01:10:21,583 --> 01:10:24,958
I have seen terrible things.
Listen to the bird-oracles and

873
01:10:25,208 --> 01:10:27,917
what they portend for Thebes, drunk

874
01:10:28,167 --> 01:10:31,125
with premature victory and by the droning

875
01:10:31,375 --> 01:10:35,292
shouts of the Bacchus dancers deafened:
on the ancient

876
01:10:35,708 --> 01:10:39,875
chair I was seated, before me a harbor full of birds.

877
01:10:40,125 --> 01:10:43,833
And I heard a murderous turbulence
rise in the air above me.

878
01:10:44,583 --> 01:10:47,625
And there was the lashing fury
of scratching claws as the

879
01:10:48,208 --> 01:10:51,458
birds butchered each other. Frightened,

880
01:10:52,125 --> 01:10:55,583
I quickly tested the newly-lit altars, but

881
01:10:55,833 --> 01:11:00,375
not in a single spot
could I make a good fire. Only smoke

882
01:11:00,625 --> 01:11:03,958
waltzing tearfully skyward and the
thighbones of the sacrificial ox

883
01:11:04,208 --> 01:11:07,458
jutting out of the fat meant to cover it.

884
01:11:10,042 --> 01:11:14,125
Very bad signs on the day of victory,

885
01:11:15,917 --> 01:11:19,750
and news that kills joy.

886
01:11:20,333 --> 01:11:25,125
This is the deadly meaning
of the sinister symbols:

887
01:11:25,792 --> 01:11:29,333
it is you, Kreon, who cause
the city's sickness.

888
01:11:29,583 --> 01:11:32,125
because the altars and hearths

889
01:11:32,375 --> 01:11:35,708
are profaned by dogs and vultures
who are satisfying their hunger

890
01:11:35,958 --> 01:11:39,625
on the body of Oedipus' son,
fallen, in a most disquieting way.

891
01:11:41,625 --> 01:11:45,083
Therefore they don't sing
their song of good omen,

892
01:11:45,333 --> 01:11:48,708
the birds,
since they have -- from a dead man --

893
01:11:48,958 --> 01:11:52,125
eaten the flesh. But the Gods

894
01:11:52,542 --> 01:11:55,458
don't care for the taste
of such smoke. Therefore

895
01:11:55,708 --> 01:11:58,417
soften your heart towards the dead man,
and stop your persecution

896
01:11:58,667 --> 01:12:00,417
of those who have gone away!

897
01:12:00,833 --> 01:12:03,583
Your birds, old man,

898
01:12:04,375 --> 01:12:08,125
fly very nicely for you.
I know all about that. They would

899
01:12:08,375 --> 01:12:11,750
perhaps fly as nicely for me.
I am not altogether unschooled

900
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:14,833
in this business of the prophetic arts,

901
01:12:15,083 --> 01:12:17,958
though I'm not so greedy. So pocket

902
01:12:18,208 --> 01:12:21,875
your treasures from Sardis and your Indian gold.

903
01:12:22,083 --> 01:12:25,875
But know this: I will not bury the corpse,

904
01:12:26,542 --> 01:12:28,875
and I am not afraid of heaven's wrath.

905
01:12:29,125 --> 01:12:32,542
Nothing human bothers the gods, that much I know.

906
01:12:33,958 --> 01:12:36,458
But many fall, old man,

907
01:12:36,667 --> 01:12:40,125
even the very powerful among the mortals

908
01:12:40,375 --> 01:12:44,083
to an end that is very grim,
when they make up stories

909
01:12:44,583 --> 01:12:47,792
that are very grim for the sake of profit.

910
01:12:52,208 --> 01:12:58,708
I am too old to compromise myself
for the short time that's left to me.

911
01:12:58,958 --> 01:13:01,750
No one is so old

912
01:13:02,583 --> 01:13:04,917
that he doesn't want to grow older.

913
01:13:05,167 --> 01:13:06,542
I know.

914
01:13:07,792 --> 01:13:10,125
But I know more.

915
01:13:10,958 --> 01:13:12,750
Say it, Tiresias.

916
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:16,417
Sir, let the seer be heard.

917
01:13:16,667 --> 01:13:20,792
Say it, by all means, but let's make a bargain.

918
01:13:21,417 --> 01:13:24,708
the prophet likes to profit
from his prophecy in silver.

919
01:13:25,542 --> 01:13:27,833
I heard that that's what tyrants have to offer.

920
01:13:28,167 --> 01:13:30,500
Even when they're blind,

921
01:13:31,208 --> 01:13:34,292
they'll bite into the coin and they know:

922
01:13:34,542 --> 01:13:36,375
that's silver.

923
01:13:36,625 --> 01:13:39,667
I don't want you to offer me any

924
01:13:40,500 --> 01:13:43,333
because in wartime no one knows what he'll keep,

925
01:13:44,292 --> 01:13:47,792
whether it's silver, or sons, or power.

926
01:13:49,583 --> 01:13:50,917
The war is over.

927
01:13:51,250 --> 01:13:52,833
Is it?

928
01:13:53,458 --> 01:13:55,833
I'll ask you a question!

929
01:13:57,375 --> 01:14:00,333
Since, according to you, I know nothing,

930
01:14:00,708 --> 01:14:04,542
I'll have to ask.  Since into the future,

931
01:14:04,875 --> 01:14:08,292
so you tell me, I can not see, I must

932
01:14:08,542 --> 01:14:11,292
see into the present
and into the past to stay

933
01:14:11,500 --> 01:14:15,875
within my art and
still be a seer. Of course, I

934
01:14:16,208 --> 01:14:20,083
only see what a child sees:
that the victory-columns

935
01:14:20,375 --> 01:14:24,542
are stripped bare of bronze!
I say that's because they're still

936
01:14:24,792 --> 01:14:27,167
making spears.
And also that for the troops,

937
01:14:27,417 --> 01:14:30,000
furs are being sewn.
I say: as if Autumn were coming.

938
01:14:30,208 --> 01:14:33,625
And that fish are being preserved:
as if for winter rations.

939
01:14:35,792 --> 01:14:40,167
I thought that was before the victory battle,

940
01:14:40,667 --> 01:14:44,167
and is now discontinued.
Won't booty come

941
01:14:44,417 --> 01:14:48,000
with metal and fish now from Argos?

942
01:14:49,792 --> 01:14:53,083
And there are many guards,
and whether they guard much

943
01:14:53,333 --> 01:14:57,875
or little, no one knows.
But there is much

944
01:14:58,167 --> 01:15:02,083
confusion in your house and no amnesties granted

945
01:15:03,833 --> 01:15:07,042
as is customary after happy occasions.
And it is said

946
01:15:07,292 --> 01:15:10,875
that you son Hamon
left you in anger

947
01:15:11,625 --> 01:15:14,667
because Antigone, his bride,

948
01:15:14,917 --> 01:15:18,250
you have entombed in a cave,
because she wanted

949
01:15:18,500 --> 01:15:21,667
to open a grave for her brother Polyneikes,

950
01:15:21,917 --> 01:15:25,500
because you struck him down
and left him unburied,

951
01:15:25,750 --> 01:15:28,417
because he turned against you, because

952
01:15:28,667 --> 01:15:32,333
your war killed his brother, Eteokles.

953
01:15:34,292 --> 01:15:38,375
That's how you're cruelly
bound up with cruelty.

954
01:15:39,458 --> 01:15:42,958
And since I'm not silenced
by silver I'll ask

955
01:15:43,167 --> 01:15:46,292
this second question:
why are you so cruel,

956
01:15:46,542 --> 01:15:49,917
Kreon, son of Menokeus?
I'll make it easier:

957
01:15:50,167 --> 01:15:53,083
is it because there's not enough
metal for your war?

958
01:15:53,333 --> 01:15:57,042
What is it that you've done,
both mad and bad,

959
01:15:58,333 --> 01:16:01,958
that now you must
compound both madness and badness?

960
01:16:05,333 --> 01:16:07,542
You're thinking of the forked tongue,

961
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:10,667
though a half-tongue were worse.

962
01:16:12,333 --> 01:16:16,125
But I'll give my double answer.
It is: none.

963
01:16:16,625 --> 01:16:19,667
And I answer nothing with nothing
and say:

964
01:16:20,542 --> 01:16:24,625
the bad economy cries out for great
men, and none are to be found.

965
01:16:25,667 --> 01:16:29,500
The war goes away by itself
and breaks a leg.

966
01:16:30,167 --> 01:16:33,667
Pillage comes from pillage and
the hard time need a harder time

967
01:16:33,917 --> 01:16:38,167
and more needs even more
and comes in the end to nothing.

968
01:16:39,958 --> 01:16:44,083
And so I have looked back,
and I have looked around,

969
01:16:44,542 --> 01:16:46,500
you look ahead and shudder.

970
01:17:19,125 --> 01:17:24,875
Sir, if our hair was still black,
it would have

971
01:17:25,625 --> 01:17:29,458
turned white this instant.
The man, enraged,

972
01:17:30,083 --> 01:17:32,583
has said bad things.

973
01:17:33,083 --> 01:17:35,375
Don't say anything worse.

974
01:17:35,833 --> 01:17:42,250
And I say: why bring us
what's better left unsaid?

975
01:17:42,583 --> 01:17:46,292
Kreon, son of Menokeus, when

976
01:17:46,667 --> 01:17:53,458
are the young men returning to
the city now empty of men, and how

977
01:17:53,875 --> 01:17:58,167
goes your war,
Kreon, son of Menokeus?

978
01:18:00,167 --> 01:18:03,958
Since that troublemaker
has directed your eyes

979
01:18:04,208 --> 01:18:09,208
to this matter, I'll tell you:
that which perfidious

980
01:18:09,458 --> 01:18:13,458
Argos made us wage, the war,
to its end

981
01:18:14,333 --> 01:18:18,167
it hasn't yet come and isn't going

982
01:18:18,375 --> 01:18:21,458
very well.
When I announced peace,

983
01:18:21,708 --> 01:18:24,292
there was only one little detail
missing, and that only

984
01:18:24,500 --> 01:18:26,958
because of Polyneikes' treason.

985
01:18:27,750 --> 01:18:32,333
But he has been punished
and so has she who mourned him.

986
01:18:32,667 --> 01:18:34,708
And this too

987
01:18:34,917 --> 01:18:41,167
is not at an end: he has turned
against you, he who leads here at home

988
01:18:41,417 --> 01:18:44,083
the strength of your spears,
the youngster,

989
01:18:44,292 --> 01:18:45,708
Hamon your son.

990
01:18:46,042 --> 01:18:48,708
I no longer want him

991
01:18:48,958 --> 01:18:52,667
at all. Get him out of
my sight and yours;

992
01:18:52,917 --> 01:18:57,875
he deserted me for trivial
thoughts of his bed.

993
01:18:58,125 --> 01:19:01,292
My son Megareus still
fights for me.  My son

994
01:19:01,833 --> 01:19:04,167
sends endless cruel thrusts

995
01:19:04,417 --> 01:19:07,500
against the weakened walls of Argos

996
01:19:07,750 --> 01:19:11,292
with the armored youths of Thebes.

997
01:19:11,625 --> 01:19:14,417
They are not expendable.

998
01:19:16,250 --> 01:19:20,833
Kreon, son of Menokeus, we have always
followed you. And there was order

999
01:19:21,083 --> 01:19:23,917
in the city, and you kept
far from our throats

1000
01:19:24,167 --> 01:19:27,667
our enemies. But now,
under the Theban roofs,

1001
01:19:29,125 --> 01:19:33,667
the thieves who have nothing
and thrive on war

1002
01:19:34,958 --> 01:19:37,958
and those who live on discord,
the rabble-rousers with

1003
01:19:38,208 --> 01:19:42,042
the empty stomachs and strong
lungs in the market place,

1004
01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:47,208
talking because they are paid or
because they are not paid,

1005
01:19:48,625 --> 01:19:54,083
now they are shouting again, and they
have some strong material too. Have you

1006
01:19:54,417 --> 01:19:58,833
started something too big,
son of Menokeus?

1007
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:02,667
When I attacked Argos,

1008
01:20:02,875 --> 01:20:06,167
who sent me?
The metal spears went out

1009
01:20:06,417 --> 01:20:08,667
to bring metal from the mountains

1010
01:20:08,917 --> 01:20:12,042
at your request -- for you know Argos

1011
01:20:12,750 --> 01:20:15,417
is rich in metals.

1012
01:20:16,833 --> 01:20:22,167
And also rich in spears, it seems.
Some things,

1013
01:20:22,333 --> 01:20:27,500
evil things we heard here
and we dismissed them, trusting you

1014
01:20:27,750 --> 01:20:32,000
with the reports;
and we closed our ears,

1015
01:20:32,833 --> 01:20:37,833
fearing fear. And we shut our eyes
when more tightly

1016
01:20:38,125 --> 01:20:41,500
you pulled at the bridle.
Just one more

1017
01:20:41,750 --> 01:20:45,333
pull on the bridle
and one more battle

1018
01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:48,917
you said, that's all we need, but now

1019
01:20:49,167 --> 01:20:53,375
you are beginning to deal with us as you deal

1020
01:20:53,583 --> 01:20:57,417
with the enemy. How horribly

1021
01:20:57,750 --> 01:21:00,375
you lead your double war.

1022
01:21:00,708 --> 01:21:02,542
Your war!

1023
01:21:02,875 --> 01:21:04,583
You lead it!

1024
01:21:05,167 --> 01:21:07,667
If I had Argos,

1025
01:21:08,042 --> 01:21:11,625
it would be yours soon enough!
Enough of this!

1026
01:21:11,875 --> 01:21:15,792
So that rebellious girl

1027
01:21:16,042 --> 01:21:19,333
has stirred up all those who heard her!

1028
01:21:19,542 --> 01:21:23,208
Surely the sister was right to bury her brother.

1029
01:21:23,458 --> 01:21:27,500
Surely the commander was right to punish the traitor.

1030
01:21:27,750 --> 01:21:32,708
The naked truth asserts its right,
and right drives us right to our doom.

1031
01:21:32,958 --> 01:21:35,458
War makes new rights and wrongs.

1032
01:21:35,833 --> 01:21:38,250
And lives by the old ones.

1033
01:21:39,042 --> 01:21:43,875
War devours itself and those in need get nothing.

1034
01:21:44,792 --> 01:21:49,042
Ingrates! You'll eat the meat but

1035
01:21:49,292 --> 01:21:53,708
you don't like to see
the cook's bloody apron! The sandalwood

1036
01:21:53,917 --> 01:21:56,542
that I gave you to build your houses, where

1037
01:21:56,792 --> 01:22:01,083
the  sound of sword is not heard,
was grown in Argos!

1038
01:22:02,833 --> 01:22:06,250
And so far no one has sent back the bronze-plate

1039
01:22:06,458 --> 01:22:09,667
that I brought you from Argos,
but you huddle together,

1040
01:22:09,917 --> 01:22:14,542
and babble about the blood-baths
and complain of my crassness.

1041
01:22:15,250 --> 01:22:18,583
I can expect yet more provocations
when the booty doesn't get here.

1042
01:22:19,333 --> 01:22:22,625
Man, how much longer will Thebes
still be without its men?

1043
01:22:22,875 --> 01:22:26,375
Until your men have conquered rich Argos for you.

1044
01:22:26,625 --> 01:22:29,958
Call them back, damn you before they all die.

1045
01:22:30,375 --> 01:22:33,417
Empty handed? That assignment,
will you confirm it?

1046
01:22:33,667 --> 01:22:38,542
Empty handed, or without hands, whatever
is left of our flesh and blood!

1047
01:22:38,875 --> 01:22:43,708
Certainly. Argos will fall,
then I will call them.

1048
01:22:44,208 --> 01:22:48,292
And my eldest son, Megareus,
will bring them to you.

1049
01:22:49,208 --> 01:22:53,500
And see to it that the doors and
gates are not too narrow and

1050
01:22:53,750 --> 01:22:57,333
only tall enough for such as walk bent down.

1051
01:22:57,542 --> 01:23:02,125
The shoulders of men of greater girth could

1052
01:23:02,667 --> 01:23:07,708
crash the palace door here
and break the doors of the treasury there.

1053
01:23:08,125 --> 01:23:11,667
And it may be there'll be such joyous embraces

1054
01:23:11,917 --> 01:23:15,708
at the reunion that your hands
and your arms shall be shaken

1055
01:23:15,958 --> 01:23:19,083
out of their sockets.
And when you press with passion

1056
01:23:19,292 --> 01:23:23,542
against the anxious breast
of their armour, mind your ribs!

1057
01:23:24,667 --> 01:23:28,833
Because on that happy day
you'll see more bare iron

1058
01:23:29,500 --> 01:23:31,083
than destitution.

1059
01:23:31,250 --> 01:23:34,042
Many reluctant victors

1060
01:23:34,750 --> 01:23:39,042
have been garlanded with chains
and danced on bended knees.

1061
01:23:40,542 --> 01:23:47,167
Evildoer, are you threatening
your own people? Are you ready

1062
01:23:48,292 --> 01:23:50,292
to set our own men against us?

1063
01:23:52,500 --> 01:23:54,083
I want to

1064
01:23:54,708 --> 01:23:58,083
discuss it with my son, Megareus.

1065
01:24:12,917 --> 01:24:16,250
Sir, bow your head!
I am a bringer

1066
01:24:16,500 --> 01:24:21,000
of bad news! Stop the hasty celebration

1067
01:24:21,458 --> 01:24:24,417
of a victory that was announced too early!

1068
01:24:24,750 --> 01:24:26,625
In a new battle,

1069
01:24:26,875 --> 01:24:31,542
your army at Argos has fallen and is in retreat.

1070
01:24:32,958 --> 01:24:36,750
Your son Megareus is dead. He lies mangled

1071
01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:40,667
on the hard ground of Argos. When you

1072
01:24:40,917 --> 01:24:43,625
punished the retreat of Polyneikes,

1073
01:24:43,875 --> 01:24:46,667
and the many in the army
who opposed you were arrested

1074
01:24:46,875 --> 01:24:49,000
and publicly hanged, and you yourself

1075
01:24:49,250 --> 01:24:52,583
hurried back to Thebes, we were ordered by

1076
01:24:52,833 --> 01:24:56,250
your eldest son to advance into a new battle.

1077
01:24:57,458 --> 01:25:01,000
The troops had not yet slept off
the bloodbath in their own

1078
01:25:01,250 --> 01:25:05,958
ranks. With tired hands they raised,

1079
01:25:06,542 --> 01:25:10,500
the battle ax, still wet with Theban blood,

1080
01:25:11,083 --> 01:25:14,708
against the men of Argos.
And all too many

1081
01:25:14,917 --> 01:25:18,167
faces turned around toward Megareus, who,

1082
01:25:18,417 --> 01:25:21,667
in order to seem fiercer than the enemy,

1083
01:25:22,250 --> 01:25:26,583
perhaps had urged them forward
in too harsh a voice.

1084
01:25:27,458 --> 01:25:31,458
And yet at first
the battle's luck was with us, for

1085
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:35,542
every battle rouses its own battle fever,

1086
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:40,625
and blood suffices,
be it ours or theirs,

1087
01:25:41,083 --> 01:25:45,500
and it intoxicates.
What courage cannot do,

1088
01:25:45,833 --> 01:25:48,042
fear does. Albeit the terrain

1089
01:25:48,250 --> 01:25:51,667
and the equipment and the rations
all play a part in it.

1090
01:25:51,917 --> 01:25:55,583
And sir, the people of Argos
fought with desperation.

1091
01:25:55,708 --> 01:25:58,417
The women fought and the children fought.

1092
01:26:00,250 --> 01:26:04,208
Pots and pans, long without food,

1093
01:26:04,458 --> 01:26:08,083
were filled with boiling water and

1094
01:26:08,333 --> 01:26:12,958
poured down on us.
Even surviving houses

1095
01:26:13,500 --> 01:26:17,708
were burned down behind us,
so that there were no prepared

1096
01:26:18,042 --> 01:26:23,708
positions to which we could withdraw.
Every household article and every house

1097
01:26:23,958 --> 01:26:27,917
became a weapon and a trench.

1098
01:26:28,958 --> 01:26:32,417
But still your son
drove us forward and drove us

1099
01:26:32,667 --> 01:26:35,375
further into the city, which, devastated,

1100
01:26:35,625 --> 01:26:38,542
now transformed itself into a grave.
Among the ruins

1101
01:26:38,792 --> 01:26:41,375
we were separated from one another;
smoke from all

1102
01:26:41,625 --> 01:26:44,958
occupied quarters, sheets of fire,

1103
01:26:45,250 --> 01:26:48,583
confounded our vision. Fleeing the fire

1104
01:26:48,792 --> 01:26:52,417
and seeking the enemy, we slew one another

1105
01:26:52,667 --> 01:26:56,333
and no one knows by whose
hand your son died.

1106
01:26:56,792 --> 01:27:00,875
The flower of Thebes. All gone.

1107
01:27:01,417 --> 01:27:04,917
And Thebes itself cannot last long,
because

1108
01:27:05,167 --> 01:27:10,208
the Argives are coming with men and wagons

1109
01:27:10,458 --> 01:27:14,583
into our streets. And I, who have seen it

1110
01:27:14,792 --> 01:27:18,125
am glad that it's over.

1111
01:27:28,083 --> 01:27:30,750
Woe!

1112
01:27:31,375 --> 01:27:35,250
Megareus, my son!

1113
01:27:43,500 --> 01:27:45,458
Don't waste

1114
01:27:45,708 --> 01:27:49,042
time grieving.
Gather the forces.

1115
01:27:49,292 --> 01:27:52,875
Gather nothing. Down the drain.

1116
01:27:54,083 --> 01:27:56,500
Drunk with the joys of victory

1117
01:27:56,750 --> 01:28:04,167
Thebes leaps up as the enemy approaches
to put her in the iron chains!

1118
01:28:05,625 --> 01:28:11,625
You sold us out
when you gave your sword away.

1119
01:28:12,125 --> 01:28:18,458
Now remember your other son:
call the younger!

1120
01:28:18,792 --> 01:28:22,542
Yes, Hamon, my last one!
Yes, my youngest son!

1121
01:28:22,792 --> 01:28:27,167
Come help me now in my great downfall; forget

1122
01:28:28,958 --> 01:28:32,917
what I said,
because when I was master of many

1123
01:28:33,333 --> 01:28:35,500
I could not master myself.

1124
01:28:37,333 --> 01:28:39,000
Hurry to the cliffside

1125
01:28:39,208 --> 01:28:43,250
and remove the grave walls quickly.

1126
01:28:43,750 --> 01:28:45,542
Free Antigone!

1127
01:28:45,875 --> 01:28:48,583
If I let her go

1128
01:28:49,375 --> 01:28:53,167
will you stand by me? You

1129
01:28:53,417 --> 01:28:57,125
agreed to everything when
you challenged nothing -- that

1130
01:28:58,667 --> 01:29:00,667
means you're committed!

1131
01:29:00,958 --> 01:29:02,167
Go!

1132
01:29:03,250 --> 01:29:06,917
The ax! The ax!

1133
01:29:12,458 --> 01:29:14,958
Stop the dancing!

1134
01:29:21,292 --> 01:29:24,917
Spirit of joy,
who is proud of the waters

1135
01:29:25,167 --> 01:29:29,000
that Cadmus loved,

1136
01:29:30,625 --> 01:29:35,500
come, if you want
to see her again,

1137
01:29:35,792 --> 01:29:39,333
your city. Travel swiftly and get here

1138
01:29:39,542 --> 01:29:43,333
before nightfall, because after that

1139
01:29:44,333 --> 01:29:46,833
she'll be gone.

1140
01:29:47,583 --> 01:29:50,375
This, O god of joy,

1141
01:29:50,625 --> 01:29:53,917
is your native city,
the Bacchanalian,

1142
01:29:54,125 --> 01:29:58,875
Thebes, where you lived,
at Ismenus' cold brook.

1143
01:29:59,792 --> 01:30:03,708
Here. the smoke of your sacrifices rising firmly

1144
01:30:03,958 --> 01:30:08,375
above the rafters of the rooves,
you have seen it.

1145
01:30:09,458 --> 01:30:14,000
From her many houses, no more fire

1146
01:30:14,250 --> 01:30:22,375
nor the smoke of the fire,
nor the shadow of the smoke, shall you see.

1147
01:30:23,292 --> 01:30:27,667
For a thousand years her children

1148
01:30:27,917 --> 01:30:33,958
saw themselves as masters
of the most distant seas,

1149
01:30:34,708 --> 01:30:37,500
but tomorrow they shall have,
and today they have

1150
01:30:37,750 --> 01:30:41,667
hardly a stone
on which to lay their heads.

1151
01:30:44,375 --> 01:30:48,333
At the cocytus, in your days,

1152
01:30:48,833 --> 01:30:53,417
god of joy,
you were seated with the beloved

1153
01:30:54,875 --> 01:30:58,083
in the woods of Castalia. And

1154
01:30:58,333 --> 01:31:02,583
visited the blacksmith and tested

1155
01:31:02,833 --> 01:31:07,500
with your thumb, smilingly,
the edges of the swords.

1156
01:31:07,958 --> 01:31:13,583
Often you followed the deathless
songs of Thebes

1157
01:31:13,833 --> 01:31:18,250
through the streets
when they still were merry,

1158
01:31:18,875 --> 01:31:22,500
Oh, their weapons have mauled their own flesh,

1159
01:31:22,750 --> 01:31:27,000
their strength was consumed by exhaustion.

1160
01:31:27,250 --> 01:31:31,125
Oh, violence is in need of a miracle,

1161
01:31:31,375 --> 01:31:35,833
and gentleness is in need
of a little wisdom.

1162
01:31:36,458 --> 01:31:42,542
And now the much battered enemy stands

1163
01:31:42,792 --> 01:31:45,708
at the gates of our palaces

1164
01:31:45,958 --> 01:31:48,750
and commands the bloody spears around

1165
01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:52,292
the seven gated mouth

1166
01:31:52,875 --> 01:31:55,375
and will not leave there

1167
01:31:55,625 --> 01:32:00,458
until our cheeks are filled with blood.

1168
01:32:02,208 --> 01:32:05,583
But here comes a girl

1169
01:32:06,042 --> 01:32:09,708
pushing her way through the crowd,
with news,

1170
01:32:09,958 --> 01:32:12,875
surely, of Hamon, whose father

1171
01:32:13,125 --> 01:32:16,292
appointed to lead our rescuing troops.

1172
01:32:16,625 --> 01:32:21,583
O wasted strength!
Oh, the last sword is broken!

1173
01:32:23,000 --> 01:32:27,792
Hamon is dead, bleeding by his own hand.

1174
01:32:30,583 --> 01:32:34,125
I was an eye-witness --
what happened earlier

1175
01:32:34,375 --> 01:32:38,083
I heard from the slaves
who went to their master

1176
01:32:38,333 --> 01:32:42,208
on that high plain where,
gnawed by the dogs,

1177
01:32:43,042 --> 01:32:46,375
the poor corpse of Polyneikes lay.

1178
01:32:47,083 --> 01:32:50,042
They washed him silently and
laid him out,

1179
01:32:50,292 --> 01:32:53,500
with fresh branches, as is the custom,

1180
01:32:53,875 --> 01:32:57,708
and a little shelter they carefully

1181
01:32:57,958 --> 01:33:01,333
built up from his native soil.

1182
01:33:04,875 --> 01:33:08,500
Pushing past all the others
the master approached

1183
01:33:08,750 --> 01:33:13,208
the grave in the cliff,
where we women were standing.

1184
01:33:13,792 --> 01:33:15,917
One of us heard a voice

1185
01:33:16,167 --> 01:33:19,625
and loud cries
from inside the chamber

1186
01:33:19,875 --> 01:33:23,625
and ran to the master to tell him.

1187
01:33:24,417 --> 01:33:29,333
He hurried,
and as he went he was surrounded

1188
01:33:29,792 --> 01:33:34,833
strangely by dark and pitiful voices.

1189
01:33:35,333 --> 01:33:41,125
Then, coming close, he called out
and cried pathetically

1190
01:33:44,750 --> 01:33:50,792
when he saw that the bolt had been
torn out of the wall, and said,

1191
01:33:51,083 --> 01:33:56,417
as though he believed what he said,
"That's not Hamon's voice. That's not

1192
01:33:56,958 --> 01:34:00,458
my child's voice."
Beckoning the call

1193
01:34:00,708 --> 01:34:05,250
of our frightened master,
we assembled. There,

1194
01:34:06,500 --> 01:34:10,333
at the back of the cave among the graves,
we saw

1195
01:34:12,333 --> 01:34:15,667
hanged by the neck, her, Antigone,

1196
01:34:16,792 --> 01:34:19,875
a rope made of cloth around her neck.

1197
01:34:20,833 --> 01:34:25,042
And he -- stretched out at her feet,

1198
01:34:25,292 --> 01:34:29,625
lamenting his bridal bed
and the abyss below

1199
01:34:30,667 --> 01:34:34,833
and his father's work.
And when he sees it

1200
01:34:35,083 --> 01:34:37,333
he goes into him and speaks to him:

1201
01:34:37,583 --> 01:34:41,708
"O come out, dear child,
I beg you on my knees."

1202
01:34:42,750 --> 01:34:48,167
Saying nothing, the son
looks at him coldly, staring at him,

1203
01:34:49,208 --> 01:34:53,833
and draws his double edged sword
towards him.

1204
01:34:54,417 --> 01:34:57,458
But when his frightened father
turns to flee,

1205
01:34:57,708 --> 01:35:01,083
he falters.
Without one more word,

1206
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standing upright, he slowly
pierces

1207
01:35:05,833 --> 01:35:10,625
the sword into his own body.
Wordless, he falls.

1208
01:35:16,917 --> 01:35:20,000
The dead lie with the dead. Bridal

1209
01:35:20,250 --> 01:35:24,667
fulfillment
is found somberly in the house

1210
01:35:24,917 --> 01:35:29,292
of the underworld.
Here comes my master himself.

1211
01:35:29,542 --> 01:35:34,208
The city has fallen,
habituated to the bridle and

1212
01:35:34,458 --> 01:35:42,167
without bridle. Leaning on women,
the defeated man comes, and

1213
01:35:42,750 --> 01:35:47,875
in his hands he carries
a great memento

1214
01:35:49,375 --> 01:35:51,958
of a stupid rage...

1215
01:35:56,583 --> 01:36:02,000
Look at what I've got.
It's the shirt. I had thought

1216
01:36:05,000 --> 01:36:10,750
it would have been a sword when
I went to get it. He, too soon for me,

1217
01:36:11,083 --> 01:36:15,417
died, my child.  Just one more battle

1218
01:36:17,833 --> 01:36:22,500
and Argos would have surrendered!
But what there was

1219
01:36:22,917 --> 01:36:27,667
of courage and of excellence was
turned against me,

1220
01:36:28,417 --> 01:36:30,583
so now Thebes falls

1221
01:36:31,208 --> 01:36:36,417
and it should fall, should fall
with me, should be done with

1222
01:36:37,833 --> 01:36:42,125
and left to the vultures.
That's how I want it.

1223
01:37:01,750 --> 01:37:05,167
Turned around and went

1224
01:37:05,417 --> 01:37:09,167
--holding nothing more in his hands
than a bloodstained cloth,

1225
01:37:09,417 --> 01:37:12,875
all that was left of
the house of Labdacus--

1226
01:37:14,083 --> 01:37:15,833
into the tottering city.

1227
01:37:16,167 --> 01:37:21,375
But we,
we follow him still, and

1228
01:37:21,625 --> 01:37:25,417
it's all downhill.
It shall now be cut off,

1229
01:37:25,667 --> 01:37:28,750
so that it shall not strike again,

1230
01:37:29,167 --> 01:37:34,500
our obliging hands.
But she who saw it all

1231
01:37:35,542 --> 01:37:39,750
could only help the enemy who now

1232
01:37:40,042 --> 01:37:45,500
comes to destroy us entirely.
For time is short

1233
01:37:46,167 --> 01:37:51,625
and the unknown surrounds us;
and it isn't enough

1234
01:37:52,417 --> 01:37:56,500
just to live unthinking and happy

1235
01:37:56,833 --> 01:38:00,417
and patiently bear oppression

1236
01:38:00,667 --> 01:38:03,625
and learn wisdom only with age.

1237
01:38:09,083 --> 01:38:12,958
The human memory of past suffering

1238
01:38:13,208 --> 01:38:16,000
is short.  Its imagination

1239
01:38:16,250 --> 01:38:20,333
for future suffering is more limited yet.

1240
01:38:24,750 --> 01:38:29,542
This is because humanity is menaced
by wars compared to which

1241
01:38:29,792 --> 01:38:33,292
those already past will seem
like pitiful attempts,

1242
01:38:33,542 --> 01:38:36,125
and without any doubt they
are going to happen,

1243
01:38:36,333 --> 01:38:39,625
if the hands of those who
prepare them in public

1244
01:38:39,875 --> 01:38:42,417
are not crushed.

1245
01:38:47,625 --> 01:38:50,417
subtitles: depositio

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01:38:50,542 --> 01:38:52,292
based on

1247
01:38:52,458 --> 01:38:55,250
Judith Malina's English translation of Brecht

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01:38:55,333 --> 01:38:57,875
and Danièle Huillet's French subtitles