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Dionysus. Ha! there I made him look so foolish: For when he thought that he was binding Me he did not even touch me. He was gorged on pure delusion. fromThe Bacchae (98)
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Firenze, P.J. The social mask and the dionysian figure in pirandello'sLiolá and Williams'A streetcar named desire . Neohelicon 24, 327–339 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02558076
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