← But Oedipus and his sons are dead. 🔊✎
← He's going to come in by and by to tell us that Haemon is dead. 🔊✎
← Now the city has been saved, the two brothers who became enemies are dead, and King Creon has ordered that Eteocles, the good brother, will be buried with full honours, while Polynices, the good-for-nothing traitor, will be left without tomb or ceremony to be the prey of the crows and the jackals. 🔊✎
← That's what she'll tell me, your mother, when I go up there to meet her, and I'll be so ashamed, so ashamed I'll want to die if I wasn't dead already, and all I'll be able to do is hang my head and say, "yes Ma'am Jocasta, it's true." 🔊✎
← Polynices is dead and he didn't love you. He was always a stranger to us, a bad brother. 🔊✎
← And not a word. You are all guilty of gross negligence, you will be punished whatever happens, but if you talk, if people start saying in town that someone covered up Polynices's body, then all three of you are dead. 🔊✎
← But if he has to keep paying interest to keep your happiness and your life, if Haemon no longer becomes pale when I become pale, if he no longer thinks I'm dead when I'm five minutes late, if he no longer feels alone in the world and hates me when I laugh and he doesn't know why, if he turns into Mr Haemon and learns to say "yes" like everyone else, then no, I don't love Haemon anymore. 🔊✎
← No. I just want you to give a letter to someone when I'm dead. 🔊✎
← No. Cross all that out. It's better that no one ever knows. It's like they could see me naked and touch me when I was dead. Just write "Forgive me." 🔊✎
← But now, it's over. And they are fine all the same. All the people who were going to die are dead. Those who believed one thing, and those who believed the opposite, and even the ones who didn't believe anything and just found themselves caught up in the story without any idea of what was happening. All equally dead, all of them, stiff and useless and starting to rot. 🔊✎