(ghost of) A C H I L L E S: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to make a woman bow herself to me. If not the fear of her own death, then fear for someone else, a husband or a child. How can I bend this woman to my will?(ghost of) P O L Y X E N A: I think I will not bend. I P H I G E N I A: You see, it's as we've tried to tell you, Great Achilles. Women are no good to you dead. Sheri S. Tepper
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