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Our little boy, Haemon! He'd have had a mother who was kind of small and untidy - but stronger than all the real mothers with their big tits and their aprons. You believe me, don't you? 🔊

asks in a small voice.

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! 🔊

Like my father, yes! We're the kind of people who get to the bottom of things. Right until there really isn't the smallest amount of hope left, the tiniest little possibility of hope to strangle. We're the kind of people who jump on it when we see it, your hope, your dear hope, your filthy hope! 🔊

(She is so small in the middle of the great empty room. She looks like she's cold. She wraps her arms around herself.

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. 🔊

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