← And then, in the morning, there are specific problems that need to be solved, and he gets up calmly, like a workman at the start of his day. 🔊✎
← Boss, you can ask the others. When I got back, we'd uncovered the body again. But the sun was getting warm and it was starting to stink so we went up on that little hill, really close you know, we just wanted to get upwind of it. 🔊✎
← And when I grabbed hold of her she starts twisting around, biting and scratching, she wants to carry on, she yells at me to let her go, the body isn't properly covered up yet. 🔊✎
← And you've never thought to yourself that if that was someone you loved lying there in the box, you'd want to start screaming? Scream at them to shut up and go away? 🔊✎
← Don't you start feeling sorry for me. Do what I'm doing. Do what you have to do. But if you're a human being, do it quickly. 🔊✎
← (And he starts dully without looking at Antigone.) ✎
← And then I'm sure you admired their first cigarettes, their first long trousers; and then they started going out at night, and they smelled like men, and they no longer looked at you at all. 🔊✎
← 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. 🔊✎
← And those who are still alive will quietly start to forget them and mix up their names. It's over. 🔊✎