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 THIRTY-SIXTH SITUATION LOSS OF LOVED ONES (A Kinsman Slain; a Kinsman Spectator; an Executioner ) Here all is mourning. In long funeral processions we see them pass, the heroes of this Situation; they move from the dark home to the dark church, and from there to the cemetery, returning only to weep by the hearth until they leave it on the departure of another from among them. A (1) - Witnessing the Slaying of Kinsmen, While Powerless to Prevent It: The "Niobe" and "Troilus" of .Ks.-hylus; "Polyxena" and "The Captives" of Sophocles; a part of his "Laocoon;" "The Troades" of Euripides and of Seneca. (2) Helping to Bring Misfortune Upon Ones People Through Professional Secrecy: "Les B9.il- lonnes" Mine. Terni, lw.i. I'. Divining the Death of a Loved One: The Intruder" and 'The Seven Princesses" by Maeterlinck. the one modern master of the Thirty-Sixth, and how powerful a one! (' Learning of the Death of a Kinsman or Ally: Pari of the 'Tlhesus" attributed i<> Euripides; "Pen- thesilea," "Pyschostase" and "The Death of Achilles" by Eschylus; "The Ethiopians" of Sophocles. Here added the difficull role of the messenger of misfor- tune li" who bends beneath the imprecations of Cleopatra, in Shakespeare. From comedy: "Cen1 1 .1 : . Emue " by Torquel . 117