"Thus I indeed am fortune's child and toy,"
I found this clever, how Oeddy is paradoxically both slave to & perpetrator
of fate.
come to think of it, all tales of doom/fate/destiny seem similarly dual; the
Narn i Hîn Húrin comes to mind.
KS
On 30/04/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Oedipus
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> I could not bear to see that nothing had changed,
> that the world still rolled along its trivial round
> and day rose up and yielded to the stars
> and all the trees just stood there. If the earth
> had swallowed me or demon visions claimed
> my mind's clear understanding for their own,
> I might have veiled the truth behind the horror
> and kept the blindness other men call sight.
> But I have looked too nakedly upon
> the sun and know the light for what it is.
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> Yet neither may I pierce again that pit
> from which so long ago I fell unwilling,
> and into which I later fell unknowing,
> by entering the void through my own choosing.
> Action itself is foul: I must accept.
> Thus I indeed am fortune's child and toy,
> my helplessness once more my sole protection.
> Now neither life nor death is what I need,
> but only to be of use. I may yet know
> where I belong and learn what I am for.
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