From: Andrew Lorimer <andrew@lorimer.id.au>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:50:08 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: [english] start quotes list for WoT
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[english] start quotes list for WoT
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+# *Women of Troy* Quotes
+
+## Hope, Despair, Suffering
+
+
+### Life and death
+
+"The lucky ones are dead"
+"Visionary ecstasy"
+"She is happier dead than I am living"
+
+### General complaining
+
+"After so many sorrows, and in such despiar, words mean nothing"
+"My song has become a scream"
+"Who will be my master?"
+
+### Astyanax rip
+
+"What a wretched, meaningless death"
+
+### Violence and graphic imagery
+
+"Butchered like an animal" - re. Polyxena
+"blood is still oozing" - Astyanax' death
+
+## Inhumanity, Morality, Decency
+
+"I took the opportunity to wash the body"
+"There is no decent way to say an indencent thing"
+"It degrades the decency of speech"
+"I'm not half hard enough"
+"Poor woman. You've suffered so much" - Talthybius
+
+## Power, Strength, Weakness
+
+"I shall make the Greeks' return home a disaster"
+"I do not sleep on a royal mattress anymore"
+"were you so frightened of a child that you had to invent this unheard of savagery"
+"There is nothing left worth a God's consideration"
+
+## Men and Women
+
+"a whole generation of women, raped in their own bedrooms"
+
+