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This is painful. Boring, dull, Sapolsky is, as usual, way out of his league.

L'histoire captivante compense l'écriture assez médiocre, mais la prose simple peut devenir une nuisance au sein des 1400 pages. Nous verrons.

In a reading slump, I have opted (as I assume is reasonable) to read, in french, a fourteen-hundred page epic.

The first chapter will, at once, inflate your heart to twice its original size, and subsequently rip it out for you to look at. 'Prose' is inadequate to describe this experience.

The first ten pages will counteract your suffering to a simplicity only found in prose as sophisticated as Williams'.

And so, I have discovered, it was Tiresias before the chorus, who warned of the wrongdoing of Creon. After, obviously, everyone else had already made their warnings and protest). Interesting role for Tiresias to play - he typically emerges as prophetic, not in intervention.

Re-reading Antigone in order to re-examine the role of Creon and the Theban chorus. This may require a re-reading of Aeschylus (perhaps overly ambitious).