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By Saturday, the pundits were smelling smoke but decided that the press still hadn't "found the fire" (Evan Thomas, Inside Washington ). Charles Krauthammer ( Inside Washington ) sensed an element of "Greek tragedy" to the story, although he didn't specify whether he was referring to Oedipus Rex or Antigone . Thomas and Jack Germond found it easier to cast aspersions on Clinton's partner in ...
The hypothetical modern Oedipus might join some humans of both genders who carp at the most radical-seeming alterations of the language.
The Oedipus story survives, the paper said, "because it embodies the deep human sense that free will is a fragile thing, and no inheritance, however noble, frees one from the mark of sin.
Perhaps Clinton has an Oedipus complex?
A children's book was recently published in France based on excerpts from the works of the even trendier and more arcane Gilles Deleuze, the late French philosopher and celebrated author of Anti-Oedipus . The author is Jacqueline Duhême, a former model for Henri Matisse and pal of Paul Eluard, Pablo Picasso, and Raymond Queneau.