Sphinx: Mother's mother

maa3209 May 2003, 15:40original

I was thinking about "I am your mother, and your mother's mother". One riddle of the sphinx was "Which daughter gives birth to her mother in turn?" or something like that, and the answer was night and day. Pretty banal, but could that explain the line? It doesn't seem to for me, but it seems similar somehow. I remain confused by it. Marc Aramini

James Jordan09 May 2003, 16:12original

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At 10:40 AM 5/9/2003, you wrote: I was thinking about "I am your mother, and your mother's mother". One riddle of the sphinx was "Which daughter gives birth to her mother in turn?" or something like that, and the answer was night and day. Pretty banal, but could that explain the line? It doesn't seem to for me, but it seems similar somehow. I remain confused by it. Marc Aramini

Could it be this: Latro's lapses of memory between each day provide for him a much fuller alternation of day and night than for other people. I don't remember very much from the books. Which god did Latro offend? Someone connected with the sphinx? This god/goddess would be the author of his alternating condition. Nutria

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