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Old 01-23-2012, 08:40 AM   #113
Hamlet53
Nameless Being
 
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Originally Posted by sun surfer View Post

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For now, I'll just quote my favourite line in the entire book so far. It caught me so off guard in its directness that I chuckled all day and still do thinking about it. It's when Priam is watching the battle on the field. Priam doesn't recognise who a particular Achaian is, so he calls Helen over and asks her who it is and she responds:

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Always to me, beloved father, you are feared and respected;
and I wish bitter death had been what I wanted, when I came hither
following your son, forsaking my chamber, my kinsmen,
my grown child, and the loveliness of girls my own age.
It did not happen that way: and now I am worn with weeping.
This now I will tell you in answer to the question you asked me.
That man is Atreus' son Agamemnon, widely powerful,
at the same time a good king and a strong spearfighter,
once my kinsman, slut that I am. Did this ever happen?
Slut that she is! She just cuts right to the chase in her self-loathing, huh?
Yeah, I really loved that bit as well.
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