Reading Aeschylus’s play Agamemnon today, I was most touched by the portion where the clairvoyant Cassandra waxes poetic about her impending doom.  She says: Why am I then so pitiful?  Why must I weep? …I will go through with it.  I too will take my fate.  I call as on the gates of death upon these gates to pray [...]
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