Amarna letters of the king, my lord.""-('before', then line 8, line 11). Both sentences are identical, and repetitive, with only the subject statement changing. The entire corpus of Amarna letters has many standard phrases. It also has some phrases, and quotations used only once. Some are parables: (EA 252: ""...when an ant is pinched (struck), does it not fight back and bite the hand of the man that struck it?""...) Amarna letter EA 15, from Ashur-uballit I; see also Amarna letter EA 153. Amarna letters The Amarna letters (; sometimes referred to as the Amarna correspondence or Amarna tablets, and cited with
The Full Catastrophe a family, I built a house, I had children--trouble!" Later, when Basil asks Zorba how many times he has been married, he responds, "What are you delving into now? D'you think I'm not a man? Like everyone else, I've committed the Great Folly. That's what I call marriage--may married folk forgive me! Yes, I've committed the Great Folly--I've married!" The phrase "the full catastrophe" does not actually occur in the novel. In a 2011 interview, Cacoyannis, who was fluent in English, said that in writing the script he consciously chose the non-idiomatic expression "the full catastrophe" for Zorba for the