<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Myth<div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; caret-color: rgb(20, 22, 23); color: rgb(20, 22, 23); letter-spacing: 0.24px;">Long afterward, Oedipus, old and blinded, walked the<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">roads. He smelled a familiar smell. It was<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">the Sphinx. Oedipus said, “I want to ask one question.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why didn’t I recognize my mother?” “You gave the<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">wrong answer,” said the Sphinx. “But that was what<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">made everything possible,” said Oedipus. “No,” she said.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">“When I asked, What walks on four legs in the morning,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">two at noon, and three in the evening, you answered,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Man. You didn’t say anything about woman.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">“When you say Man,” said Oedipus, “you include women<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">too. Everyone knows that.” She said, “That’s what<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">you think.”<br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; caret-color: rgb(20, 22, 23); color: rgb(20, 22, 23); letter-spacing: 0.24px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Muriel Rukeyser</p></div></div></body></html>