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| the sphinx is frightening, beautiful, and wise, a marriage of strength and wisdom, perhaps oedipus was unwise in ridding his path of the sphinx: the city of thebes thought itself unfortunate for being held in protection by the sphinx, but the plague that resulted from the choice of oedipus was worse : the wisdom is the riddle itself, not the answer to the riddle which was better left unsaid |
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