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…showed last 75 words of 1421 total…marked with the reluctance and iteration of Tiresias. Rather, he speaks freely, without the prophet's fatal awareness of how the difficulties of language are at once supplemental and central to the tragedies of time. The shepherd seems to sense this, but his resolve is broken. Where earlier Oedipus threatened punishment, here the guards come on-stage and begin to torture the shepherd. The way power and force here shatter the complex network of language and time