i do not believe that danube or the rioni could wash this house clean of the evils it shrouds, evil soon to be brought to light of day. evils deliberately committed. troubles heard more when we bring them on ourselves and know it. what we knew already was gloomy enough. what more have you to tell? briefest to hear and tell. queen jocasta is dead. poor woman. what was the cause? suicide. the worst of what happened, you are escaping, you didn't see it. still, so far as memory serves me, you shall learn her wretched fate. she came franticly into the hall then made straight for her bridal bed running the fingers of both hands through her head. the minute she was inside, she slammed the door and cried out, "laius," though he was long dead. she was recalling the seeding and breeding, which brought his death, leaving the mother to be a breeder of polluted children with his own. she cried against her double marriage, poor woman, producing one husband from another one child from another. after that, i don't know how she died. we couldn't observe what happened to her. oedipus burst in screaming. o