pretty cool how Sophocles wrote a play about how you should use allegory to keep from being understood by the people who'll murder you if they understand what you're saying, and the play was allegorical and most people don't understand it, and he died at the age of ninety-one
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Replying to @paul_hundred @The_WGD
full marks for being the first one to ask in public i was considering going with "i ain't no snitch" when somebody did but nah i mean Antigone
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(the one that killed him, per the legend)
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what is the legend? i have a fairly literal understanding of antigone
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the legend of his death is that he died of the strain of reciting a particularly long line from Antigone without taking a breath
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oh but that what was the play you think was veiled allegory
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what i am saying is that the occult meaning of Antigone is "occult your meanings, motherfuckers"
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if you want justification or some shit, i mean, i don't really keep detailed notes on why i hold positions, but check out how "the will of the gods" flipflops around and what happens when people explain themselves clearly
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