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and yet--there's all this conflicting stuff.
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Let me tell you the next thing I want to tell you about.
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The marriage ceremony in Sparta
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shows you a very odd kind of a thing.
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First of all, it happens--these are all ritual activities,
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but you ritually seize the girl you're going to marry.
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It's as though you're saying
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that the fundamental basic way you find a family
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is you grab a woman and she becomes yours.
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Then the marriage ceremony itself,
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the girl has her head shaved and she is dressed as a man,
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and sits in a darkened room awaiting her groom