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01-21-2006, 11:59 AM
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Lady of Letters
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England
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Agamemnon and Menelaus deserve the blame IMO, self-important war-mongerers both. I kind of feel sorry for Helen, because although she did behave badly she's punished enough for it, almost more than anyone. The women suffer so much more than the men - poor Andromache and Hecuba in particular!
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And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool. Last edited by sun-star : 01-21-2006 at 12:01 PM. |
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