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Sight imagery in Oedipus at Colonus
“All I shall say will be clear-sighted indeed” – pg. 90
“How bitter blindness is” – pg. 96
“Not with lost eyes, but looking in your eyes as if I were a child of yours, I beg mercy for him, the beaten man” – pg. 99
“It is my own beaten self: no feast for the eyes; yet in me is a more lasting grace than beauty” – pg. 117
“You scoundrel… on you and yours forever may the sun god, watcher of all the world, confer such days as I have had, and such an age as mine” – pg. 133
“O father, father! I wish some god would give you eyes to see the noble prince who brings us back to you” – pg. 143
“I think you’ll see how terrible an end terrible wrath may have. You have, I think, a permanent reminder in your lost, irrecoverable eyes” – pg. 148
“Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then to go back quickly whence we came.” – p...

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