An idea from Either/Or

He rewrites Antigone for his own time. Now she alone knows her father’s crime and hides it to honor him. Then she falls in love, and her lover keeps pressing her to open up. The secret is like an arrow in a wound: pull it out and she dies.

From Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard

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