Word: incestousness
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Such notions are the stuff that paradox is made of-true grist for the comic novelist. In MF, Burgess takes off from a Levi-Strauss contention that a universal connection exists between answering conundrums and committing incest. According to this view, it was not by chance that Oedipus' unwitting incest occurred after he solved the riddle of the Sphinx. Among the Algonquin and Iroquois tribes, there is a legend of brother-and-sister love in which riddles are posed by talking owls. In a 1967 essay, Burgess marvels at this transcultural yoking. In MF, the old Algonquin yarn...
...results of the questionnaire indicate that many students feel the presence of an "Incest taboo" between "brothers and sisters" on the hall. Yet more than 90 per cent of those polled felt the coed living situation had favorably affected their formation of "sexual relationships...
David M. Sloan '71, also living in North House, attributes the possibility of an "incest taboo" to a separation of two worlds-the dorm clique and outsiders. "People don't often bring dates to the dining room," Sloan said. "It's unfair to bring outsiders into a world where you know people so much more...
...couples seeking divorce must be legally separated for at least five years (when the separation is mutual) and for as long as six or seven years (when one partner is opposed). Other grounds cited in the new law: foreign divorce or remarriage by one spouse, long prison sentences, incest, attempted murder of family members, criminal insanity and nonconsummation -but not adultery...
This is merely the cream of the evening's deadly jests. The play moves like a venomous centipede through rape, incest, fratricide, adultery and bloody multiple murder. Early on, Tourneur has Vendice say, "To be honest is not to be i' the world." It establishes the odor of a play that contains the stench of sin and a lung-blackening smog of corruption. Robert Brustein, who directs an able cast with a firm, brisk hand, doubtless sees The Revenger's Tragedy as a cautionary parable for a later age steeped in blood and death and degraded values...