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21 Cards in this Set
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My children, I pity you. I see—how could I fail to see what longings bring you here? Well I know you are sick to death, all of you, but sick as you are, not one is sick as I.
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<Oedipus>
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No more than I am. He and I are equals.
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messanger
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I pitied the little baby, master, hoped he’d take him off to his own country, far away, but he saved him, for this, this fate.
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shepherd
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Now my curse upon the murderer. Whoever he is, a lone man unknown in his crime or one among many, let that man drag out his life in agony, step by painful step--.
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oedipus
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What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could see could bring me joy.
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oedipus
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Now we pray to you. You cannot equal the gods, your children know that, bending at your alter. But we do rate you first of men, both in the common crises of our lives and face-to-face encounters with the gods.
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Priest
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Apollo was explicit: my son was doomed to kill my husband…so much for the prophecy. It’s neither here nor there. From this day on, I wouldn’t look right or left.
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Jocasta
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This man’s your friend, your kin, he’s under oath-- Don’t cast him out, disgraced branded with guilt on the strength of hearsay only.
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chorus
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You with your precious eyes, you’re blind to the corruption in your life.
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<Tiresias>
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Light—now let me look my last on you!
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Oedipus
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Come to these hand of mine, your brother’s hands, your own father’s hands that served his once bright eyes so well—that made them blind.
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Oedipus
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Polybus was nothing to you, that’s why, not in blood.
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messenger
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Come here, you pious fraud. Tell me, when did you ever prove yourself a prophet? When the Sphinx,…kept her death- watch here, why silent then, not a word to set our people free?
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Oedipus
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Look at it this way first: who in his right mind would rather rule and live in anxiety than sleep in peace?
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Creon
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Death has got [Polybus] in the tomb.
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messenger
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And there we saw the woman hanging by the neck, cradled high in a woven noose, spinning, swinging back and forth.
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messenger
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Now the curse on the murderer. Whoever he is, a lone man unknown in his crime or one among many, let that man drag out his life in agony, step by painful step—
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Oedipus
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Stop—in the name of god, If you love your own life, call off this search!
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Jocasta
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God—all come true, all burst to light! Oh light—now let me look my last on you!
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Oedipus
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You are the curse, the corruption of the land!
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T.
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You cannot imagine…I tell you, you and your loved ones live together in infamy, you cannot see how far you’ve gone in guilt.
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T.
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