Michael Malone - Weebly

"Well, don't make it sound so dumb. Think about it,
Oedipus didn't call a press conference and announce,
'Listen, Jocasta and I made a few mistakes, so you're
throwing me out. Well, you won't have Oedipus Rex to
kick around anymore.' No, he said, 'Look, I was
wrong, I was blind but now I see.' See? Tragic heroes
accept the imperfectibility of man. Human character,
human destiny."
"It would seem so. How can you drink that stuff like
it was water?"
"Sammy, if you were southern, you'd understand
me better, but you Yankees never knew what it was to
be defeated. You learn there's no place left to go. The
puny little confines of human nature have you all fenced
in. No amount of overreaching is going to work. Not
over the gate of that sadist, that usurer God Almighty,
Jahweh, Lord of Lords and Lord of Flies. You know
that? You don't know that. I know that. You don't
know that." Hayes's head kept shaking mournfully.
"I thought cursing the gods was only supposed to
make matters worse."
"Nope, we won't accept our Fall. Won't do it.