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Their dialogue must operate as both public language and private language because hostile servants and suitor spies may overhear them.
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Suitors
Their dialogue must operate as both public language and private language because hostile servants and suitor spies may overhear them.
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Once Penelope's spirit acknowledges Odysseus, the two can coordinate the bow contest that will expose Odysseus and enable the killing of the suitors.
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"...are, because if they did, they'd all be dead, okay? The suitors discovered who Odysseus really is, they would kill Odysseus. Okay, so this..."
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"stranger prove to me that you actually know my husband okay so uh can you read uh ivory"
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"...still alive they can call a plan to kill all the suitors and the plan is this Penelope will announce to the suitors listen..."
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"...do? Make a mockery of myself. Go back to my old suitors. Tempt them to try again. Beg the Numidian's, grovel, plead for a..."
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"...is. And right now in his house, it is overrun by suitors, okay? There's dozens of them who are trying to wait for Penelope's..."
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"...full of servants. And some of them are spies to the suitors. And Odysseus has disguised himself because he's afraid that the suitors, if..."
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"...in fact no one knows what's going on the servants the suitors they might overhear this but they have absolutely no idea what's being..."
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"...course is Odysseus no one else can do this so the suitors don't know this so uh there's a competition all the suitors try..."
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"read it Ivory so they mocked they are the suitors of course mastermind"
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"...clear and sharp as a swallow's cry horror swept through the suitors faces blanching white and Zeus cracked the sky with a bolt his..."
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"...my strings not broken yet not quite so frail as mocking suitors thought but the hour has come to serve our master's right supper..."
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"...they basically kill everyone, okay? All right, so now after the suitors are dead, Odysseus has a problem, which is he now has to..."
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The Odyssey ends by making love more important than empire, fame, and heroic death.
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