← It begins at the moment when the two sons of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polynices, who were supposed to take turns ruling Thebes one year at a time, fought each other to the death under the walls of the city, because Eteocles, the older one, had at the end of his first year of power refused to give up his place to his brother. 🔊✎
← And you're risking your life now because I have refused to give your brother this stupid passport to the hereafter, this mass-produced mumbling over a corpse, this pantomime that would have left you more sick and ashamed than anyone. It doesn't make any sense! 🔊✎
← Well I don't have to do things if I don't want to! Perhaps you didn't want to refuse my brother a tomb either? Go on, say you didn't want to? 🔊✎
← Once, I was there, your father refused to give him a large sum he'd lost at roulette. He went white and raised his fist and called your father a bad word. 🔊✎
← Well I want it all, now, the whole thing - or else I refuse! I don't want to be modest and say a little bit is enough if I've been a good girl. I want to be sure of everything today and I want it to be as wonderful as when I was small - or I want to die! 🔊✎