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But eventually overpowered by desire, he forced his eyes open
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and rushing towards the corpses said 'see you damn wretches,
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take your fill of this beautiful sight'" 439c.
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That story that Socrates tells here
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is not one of reason controlling the passions,
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but rather one of intense internal conflict that Leontius felt.
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We see his conflicting emotions both to see and not to see,
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a sense that he wished to observe and yet he is at,in some ways,
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at war with himself, knowing to gawk, to stare at this sight.
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There's something shameful about it and he felt shame.
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One example I particularly like of this was suggested last year,
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I think, by Justin Zaremby who said it's the emotion we all feel