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"My sister Ariadne, by what love Were you betray'd to death, on lonely shores Forsaken!"
[« Ariane, ma soeur ! de quel amour blessée, Vous mourûtes aux bords où vous fûtes laissée ! »]
Jean Racine, Phaedra, Act I, Scene 3, trans. Robert B. Boswell, 1677 [Phaedra].

Vo Williams — LET IT BANG
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"A thing of beauty—such Theseus & Ariadne of glorious light of joy in love and laughter!"
[Ein Schönes war, hieß Theseus-Ariadne Und ging im Licht und freute sich des Lebens!]
Hugo von Hofmannsthal & Richard Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos, Opera, 1912 [Ariadne].

4B does not pass into nothingness, stretching out to dissident teammate reaches shore.