← While the Prologue has been talking, the actors have left one by one. The Prologue leaves too. ✎
← Not beautiful like us, but in another way. You know it's you that makes the little punks turn their heads when you walk by them; and the girls watch you and suddenly they don't have a thing to say, they just stare until you've gone round the corner. 🔊✎
← (He takes the little page by the shoulder.) ✎
← It was Polynices' spade. He'd carved his name on the handle with his knife. That's why I left it by him. 🔊✎
← The guards have left, preceded by the little page. ✎
← In your family, it's kind of embarrassing to be just human. You need to get together with fate and death. You need to kill your father and sleep with your mother and then hear the whole thing afterwards, word by word. 🔊✎
← (He goes up to her and takes her by the arm.) ✎
← Well yes, I am frightened by the idea that I'm going to have to kill you if you carry on like this. I don't want to. 🔊✎
← They're not bothered by any of this: nothing to do with them. 🔊✎