Grade 10: Unit 6

How could I therefore solve a crime alone?
But now, since I became a citizen after the murder, I make this proclamation to all my fellow Thebans: If anyone knows the man who killed King Laius, I order him to tell me everything.

Is that so? Then hear me! I call upon you to obey the words of your own decree.

Hear me: the man you seek with your edicts warrants and decrees—the man who killed the king—that man is here.

You oracles of the gods, where are you now?

She was afraid of a terrible prophecy.

Yes, even now the dark holds me in its grip. Inexorable, unspeakable, eternal darkness.

I looked upon the marvel of frail, yet indomitable hands that lifted the tower to its dominating height.

I looked upon the marvel of frail, yet indomitable hands that lifted the tower to its dominating height.

When she danced with Lama
On the hillside,
He told her that the soul can transcend earthly life
If freed from the retina.

I named for my wife a flower
as though I could name a flower
my wife dark and luminous
and not there

Slowly Nunez realized this; that his expectation of wonder and reverence at his origin and his gifts was not to be borne out; and after his poor attempt to explain sight to them had been set aside as the confused version of a new-made being describing the marvels of his incoherent sensations, he subsided, a little dashed, into listening to their instruction.

He felt something of the buoyancy that comes to all men in the beginning of a fight, but more perplexity.

"You see, my dear, he's an idiot. He has delusions; he can't do anything right."

A doorway exists solely to be passed through, a staircase solely to be ascended or descended, a hallway solely to be traversed on the way from one room to another.

Until Yangchen mentioned it, I had not noticed the sound of many televisions. I had vaguely heard some background noise beyond us, an insignificant presence at the periphery of my attention, but distracted by my nervousness, I had not identified it.

I had detected very little of what was taking place around me on this walk, perhaps because I was nervous and disoriented, but also because I was so used to navigating with my eyes that my other senses, relative to the senses of the blind girls, were atrophied.