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Priam, the price

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Priam, the price paid

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When he is not fighting

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When he is not fighting, earth is his element

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He is obliged,

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He is obliged, in his role of king

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Everything was just itself.

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Everything was just itself. That was what seemed new

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The true Achilles,

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The true Achilles, the one he has come all this way to find

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I am still here, but

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I am still here but the I is different

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A stealer of other men’s tales,

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A stealer of other men’s tales, of other men’s lives

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He had grieved.

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He had grieved. But silently

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This man who

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This man who was half himself

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Himself like a dead man.

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Himself like a dead man. Feeling nothing.

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He had… wept without

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He had… wept without restraint

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You expect this jackal… this

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You expect this jackal… this wolf

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13
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We are mortals, not

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We are mortals, not gods

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To be the son to the great Achilles is a

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To be the son to the great Achilles is a burden

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Neoptolemus has been

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Neoptolemus has been growing up without him

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Still he

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Still he felt nothing

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Their only explanation

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Their only explanation is that he is mad

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a burnt

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a burnt out shell

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outwardly

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outwardly respectful

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from now on your name

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from now on your name is Ideaus

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21
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on obedient

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on obedient toddler

22
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they found the royal feet

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they found the royal feet every bit as disappointing… as the drivers

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he was symbolically

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he was symbolically at the centre

24
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I appeal to you as

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I appeal to you as a father

25
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a mans acts follow him wherever he goes

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a mans acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of a story

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the pious resignation of

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the pious resignation of the old man he will never become

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What Achilles refers to Hector and Patroclus as

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his ghosts

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Achille’s dad

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Peleus

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Achille’s hometown

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Phthia

30
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Achille’s men

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Myrmidons

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he felt his soul

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he felt his soul change colour

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the tears he brings

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the tears he brings fall inwardly, his cheeks are dry

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something new and

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something new and unimaginable

34
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corpses

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corpses heaped in piles

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he is obliged, in his role as king

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he is obliged, in his role as king to think of the king’s sacred body

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holding one another like

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holding one another like children

37
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how many days since hectors death in part two

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eleven

38
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unchangeable, therefore

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unchangeable, therefore unchanged

39
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something impossible

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something impossible, something new

40
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it is possible because

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it is possible because it is not possible

41
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to take on the lighter bond of

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to take on the lighter bond of being simply a man

42
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Priam’s original name

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Podarces

43
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all those hours of being just

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all those hours of being just one among so many

44
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Only I know what it costs to be

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Only I know what it costs to be such an object

45
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tried to let nothing peep out

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tried to let nothing peep out of the real man inside

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stripped of all

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stripped of all glittering distractions and disguises

47
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Priam stands isolated and

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Priam stands isolated and very nearly forgotten

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at least

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at least outwardly respectful

49
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at a kingly distance

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at a kingly distance from the human

50
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you are still thinking

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you are still thinking in the old way

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