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Oedipus: Fate is Unavoidable
No matter what anyone tries, no matter what anyone does, no matter what
anyone believes they have accomplished, they have not controlled fate. Fate is
uncontrollable. Much like betting on a ³sure thing² and knowing in the back of
your mind that there are infinite factors in the outcome--anything could happen.
It¹s unfortunate that the people of Ancient Greece sanc ....
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.... he had obtained: "My father was Polybus of Corinth, my mother the Dorian
Merope, and I was held the foremost man in all that town until a thing happened-
-a thing to startle a man, though not to make him angry as it made me. We were
sitting at the table, and a man who had drunk too much cried out that I was not
my father¹s son--and I, though angry, restrained my anger for that day; but the
next day went to my father and my mother and questioned them. They were
indignant at the taun ....
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