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...girl turned out to not only a boy but Oedipus the Hamster, and our smartest roommate turned out to have a 100 percent error rate in sexing hamsters. Oedipus went on to father 11 inbred brethren in our bathroom. Two of the adorable albino puffballs soon escaped when a friend decided to open up the whole cage; our adorable rays of light and cheer were now “somewhere in Leverett House...
...article in The San Francisco Chronicle last year, Adams noted, “I take on important matters in my work, not just classical stories about Oedipus. I feel a great artist should look at the mythology right now. 9/11 is already a human myth...
...reception after last night’s performance welcomed former club members, including Bryn Mawr’s Nancy Dersofi, a professor of Italian, who performed in the club’s 1956 production of Oedipus at Colonus...
...years Murakami has kicked into overdrive. He's translated short stories, nonfiction and children's books, written travelogues, essays, short stories, a short novel and two books of nonfiction. With Kafka on the Shore, Murakami has added his first full-length novel in seven years. Loosely based on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, it's the story of Kafka Tamura, a 15-year-old boy who flees Tokyo to find the meaning of life. He comes from the kind of dysfunctional family Murakami often portrays. Kafka's mother and elder sister leave when he's four; his father, a renowned sculptor, predicts...
...first appears on stage recounting a religious experience on the toilet. Perlman, who is also a Crimson editor, describes Ty as a “cutting edge QVC media mogul, always inventing another crowd-pleasing novelty item.” His invention du jour is the Oedipus 2000, which allows children with inferiority complexes to kill their fathers—in virtual reality...