MENELAUS. A little poetry is always too much.
ANALYTIKOS. To-morrow we will try the historians.
MENELAUS. No! Not the historians. I want the truth for a change.
ANALYTIKOS. The truth!
MENELAUS. Where in books can I find escape from the grim reality of being hitched for life to such a wife? Bah!
ANALYTIKOS. Philosophy teaches——
MENELAUS. Why have the Gods made woman necessary to man, and made them fools?
ANALYTIKOS. For seventy years I have been resolving the problem of woman and even at my age——
MENELAUS. Give it up, old man. The answer is—don't.
ANALYTIKOS. Such endless variety, and yet——