Anthony Scaramucci
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Right, I know the phrase you're talking about.
Please continue.
Yeah, but the quote is, to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Ah.
He used the version of it again, and it was carved into his grave at Arlington.
So if you visit the grave at Arlington, you'll see it there.
But this comes from Aeschylus' play Agamemnon.
If you remember what happens to Agamemnon, it doesn't end well for him.
No, it doesn't.
He killed his daughter, Ephigenia.
And when he comes back, Clytemnestra kills him.
She conspires with her son.
She more or less tricks her son into helping her kill Agamemnon.
But this is the Greek tragedy, right?
This is the sins of the father passed to the son, right?
In the house of Atreus, you have these sins.
And it's an appropriate thing for the Kennedys because a lot of people feel like Joe Kennedy's sins
pass through them.
But the sin is a human sin.
And where I'm going to in this is this is a mystical book.