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I was uncertain about this after the first few chapters because it seems like much softer scifi than the previous two. So far it’s only developed the characters and their relationships, but I’m kinda coming around on it. The characters are interesting and it gives me something to follow without having to parse a bunch of arcane gnostic theology. I had to force myself to pick it back up so I don’t just play RE4

“The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish—and it will.”

New Year’s resolution was to learn some math so let’s get to it

I just finished Euripedes’ Electra. I didn’t fall in love with any of the versions of this story, but having read both Libation Bearers and Sophocles’ account, I do think Euripides’ telling was the most interesting. It does poke fun at some of the implausible plot devices of the other plays, and it also shifts the audience’s sympathy away from Electra and Orestes and towards Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus.

Iphigenia at Tauris may be my favorite play of the two volumes so far. It has some of the most beautiful language of any of the Greek tragedies I have read and is full of humor. The reunion plot is great. Putting a pin in this one because I would like to revisit other translations. I want to get to Iphigenia at Aulis too but that one wasn’t included in this anthology.