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I know where to
go from that one.

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[LAUGHS]

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Fortunately, Sophocles wrote
it for me and all I had to do

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was translate it.

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It's great when someone
else does the work, right?

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It's really great when the
person who does the work

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is someone like that.

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This is a little ode to Eros
in the middle of Antigone.

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It's a poem in itself.

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Begins with Eros,
the male god of love.

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Ends with Aphrodite, the
female goddess of love.

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"Eros, unconquered in combat"--

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that's a very Greek thought.

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If you can't fight
it and kill it,

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then it's not worth
your attention.

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"Eros unconquered in combat.

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Eros that leaps
down upon the herds.

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You that pass the night watch
on a girl's soft cheeks.

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You that cross the open
sea and roam from hut

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to hut in the far, high fields.

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Neither the immortals nor
man who lives only a day

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can escape from you.

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And he who has you
inside himself goes mad.

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You that pull the reins of
just minds toward injustice,

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disfiguring men's lives.

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You that stir up this
strife between two men

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of the same blood, while victory
goes to the force of love

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in the gaze, the desiring
eyes of the bride.

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This power on its throne rules
equally with the great laws

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for the goddess Aphrodite at
her play cannot be conquered."

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