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Oedipus is both the paradigm of man and the monster. He comprehends the essence of human identity by answering the Sphinx's riddle-what goes on four, two, and three feet at changing periods of strength and weakness; ness; but he is the exception to his own formulation, for his own feet were "yoked" at birth, made one from two, because of the prediction that he would occupy two generations at the same time