| The ancient Greeks
considered it unseemly... |
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| ...to give public praise to
women for their good looks... |
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| but apparently thought it
did no harm to young men. |
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| Note that, unlike our own popular playwrights
in England and the United States... |
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| the great Athenians scorned what we call " love
interest" and regarded sex appeal as indecent. |
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| Strewth. |
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| Listen to the words put into the
mouth of Aeschylus by Aristophanes. |
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| He boasts of how he made the Greeks crave
like lions to dash at the face of the foe... |
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| and leap to the call of the trumpet. |
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| But no Stenoboea I have given you,
no. No Phaedra, no heroine strumpet. |
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| It's no use. This
open-air experiment's no good. |
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| Or else I haven't the knack
of attracting an audience. |
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| - I'm afraid I must have bored you terribly.
- No, no, sir. No, no. |
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| You sounded a bit heathenish at first, almost
as if you believed in them queer old gods. |
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| I talked to my missus about it. |
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| You see, sir, she's keen on the Salvation
Army and likes good, serious talk. |
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| But when you said last Sunday
that God was there all along... |
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| whatever they called him,
I knew it was all right. |
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| I never thought much of myself as a speaker,
but I've never lost my whole audience before. |
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| Oh, not at all, sir. I've heard worse. |
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| But there's two things that no
speaker can stand up against. |
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