Wonderful. This has got such resonance. Edward
On 3/23/22 1:28 AM, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour wrote:
Euripides, Fragments, Aegeus-Meleager http://www.alansondheim.org/amongus.jpg Trans. Collard and Cropp, Loeb, 2008 Aegeus 1 "What land shall we say you have left to visit this city? What is your homeland's border? Who begot you, as whose son are you proclaimed." Why have you come here? Do you disturb us? Do you sleep at night as we do? We do not sleep at night, do you? From what town do you emerge? From whose womb? Are you a son of man and woman? What is your proclamation? Do you carry identity? Do you eat and drink as we do? Do you understand the nature of nourishment. Does nourishment possess a border? Do you live near the border? Do you live in border lands? Why do you visit this city and not another? Do you move from city to city? Aegeus 2 "What did your mother name you on the tenth day after your birth?" Of what is a name that you have been given one? Is a name that has been given a gift? Do you bring that gift to us. Do you bring that name as a gift to us and to no other? Aegeus 6 "What is dearer to a man than his ancestral land?" How long have you lived in your ancestral land? Does your ancestral land have a border? Is your border near our border? Does your border touch our border? What is the width of your border? Is the width of your border the width of our border? On what side of your border is your ancestral land? On what side of your border is our ancestral land? Aegeus 10 <Theseus?> "Death is due even to a man who sits at home avoiding adversity." Do you come here to die? Have you arrived to die here, far from your ancestral land? Is your death on the border of death? Are you one of the fallen near the border of your land? Aegeus 11 <Chorus> "Even if one falls, one can exhibit virtue in death." When thus are you dying, what is the last that you see? that you hear? what is the last that you touch? When you are dying, do you cross your borderlands? Stranger, why have you come here? Why have you arrived? Why have you left us? Where are you going? Why have you left us? Why have you left us? Aegeus 11a "... in front of the spring, a flower-strewn bed ..." +++ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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