← So I took off my sandals and slipped into a field without it noticing. 🔊✎
← And there'll be the guards there with their idiotic expressions and their fat necks jammed into their stiff collars and their big ugly hands, looking at us like cows. And we'll feel we could scream, we could try to make them understand, but they'd just carry on like savages and do whatever they were told to do without knowing it it was good or bad... 🔊✎
← Do you think you've got time for these fancy thoughts, to know if you should say "yes" or "no", to ask yourself if you're paying too much, if you can still feel like a man afterwards? You grab the wheel, you face the mountain of water in front of you, you yell an order and you fire into the crowd, on the first man who moves forward. Into the crowd! It doesn't have a name. 🔊✎
← And then he smashed his animal fist as hard as he could into your father's face. 🔊✎
← looking into the distance before him. ✎
← cries suddenly like a child, throws himself into his arms. ✎
← motionless, looking into the distance. ✎
← Fearful news. They had finished putting Antigone into her cave. They had not quite finished rolling the last blocks of stone into place when Creon and those around him hear groans suddenly coming from the tomb. Everyone stops talking and listens, because it is not Antigone's voice. It is a new sound coming from the depths of the cave... 🔊✎
← Everyone looks at Creon. And he understands first, before any of the others have guessed, and he shouts suddenly like a madman, "Remove the stones! Remove the stones!" The slaves cast themselves on the heaped blocks, and among them the king, covered in sweat, his hands bleeding. The stones finally move, and the smallest onlooker can just slide into the opening. 🔊✎
← But Haemon looks at him with his child's eyes, heavy with contempt, and Creon cannot avoid his gaze that cuts him like a knife. Haemon stares at the old man trembling at the other end of the cavern and then, without saying anything, he plunges the sword into his stomach and stretches himself out beside Antigone, kissing her in the middle of a huge pool of blood. 🔊✎