Sphinx: Mother's mother

maa32 · 09 May 2003, 15:40 · from urth-v0305.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) Sphinx: Mother's mother
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 08:40:08 -0700
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I was thinking about "I am your mother, and your mother's mother".  One rid=
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of the sphinx was "Which daughter gives birth to her mother in turn?" or=20
something like that, and the answer was night and day.  Pretty banal, but=20
could that explain the line?  It doesn't seem to for me, but it seems simil=
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somehow.  I remain confused by it.

Marc Aramini

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