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Selected Highlights from Sadly, Porn

[Following an analysis of Oedipus Tyrannos ]  Be given the crown, be given the throne, be given the queen-- not a crown, a throne, a queen--  the exact same throne, the exact same queen , this is the limit of his imagination, the imagination of a 5 year old, an imagination which was never forced=allowed to want something different.  Always: who am I ?  And never: what do I do ?  “I want to be King.”  You want to rule?  “Easy does it, let's not get ahead of ourselves.”  It can't be birthright because birthright isn't you; and anyway it means you are no longer an individual but have inherited all of the responsibility of action.  “I’m not so shallow to want to be the main character in my own story, what I'm really looking for is to be the main character in a play written and directed by someone else.”  Well, I got this short one, there's not much action in it, it's more of a character piece.  “That sounds perfect.”  It ends tragi...