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Brown Corpus
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
The ancient types are reassembled in gloom and foreboding to be irresistibly drawn to their destinies, but the myth fails before the modern truth ; ;
the oracle speaks false and the dream speaks true.
In both the farmer's tale in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and in Thomas Mann's The Holy Sinner, the incest hero rises above the myth by accepting the wish as motive ; ;
the heroic act is the casting off of pretense.
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