Sphinx: Mother's mother
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 09 May 2003
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maa32 — 09 May 2003, 15:40

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

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James Jordan — 09 May 2003, 16:12
  follows, by subject match maa32

> 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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