“Why is it impossible to keep Oedipus from cheating at Scrabble? He's always trying to look at his mother's rack.”— snowmansni, reddit.com
“In college, reading all those Greek tragedies and listening to the lectures about them, I would think, rather blithely, 'Well, that tragic flaw thing is nicely symmetrical: whatever makes Oedipus heroic is also—' What did I know then? Nothing. I didn’t feel in my bones as I do now that what powers o…”— David Shields, amazon.com