← 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 then, if she was too sad, if she always looked like she was waiting, her nose under the door like she is when I've gone out, maybe it would best to have her put down, painlessly put down. 🔊✎
← I can see him, their child, with his killer's face and the little spade neatly wrapped in paper under his coat. 🔊✎
← Then look, have pity on me. The body of your brother rotting under my windows, that's enough payment to reestablish order in Thebes. 🔊✎
← It's like the wave that comes crashing down on the bridge under your nose; the wind whipping you, and the thing that falls down when you shoot don't have names. Maybe it's the guy who gave you a light and smiled yesterday. He doesn't have a name. And you don't have a name either, clinging to the wheel. Only the boat and the storm have names. 🔊✎
← That strength and that courage, that god who lifted me in his arms and saved me from monsters and shadows, was that you? That comforting smell in the evening, under the lamp, when you showed me books in your study, do you think that was you? 🔊✎