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  • It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.

    -Sophocles
    Jocasta to Oedipus, her son and husband, before they both discover the truth of the prophecy. OedipusTyrannus, 979^83 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).

  • There hath he lain for ages and will lie Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep Until the latter fire shall heat the deep.

    -Tennyson
      Poems, Chiefly Lyrical,'The Kraken', l.11^13.

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