In an un-
provenanced manuscript
of Oedipus Rex
which has just
been placed
on the market
by an anonymous
vendor from
Uzbekistan, there is
an exorcised passage
in which Oedipus
states that the
presence or
absence of poets
after the various
Greek Wars
were the first true
example of labour
economics. "Who
needs bards" he
ends "when there
is no victory
to sing about?" Some-
one—a different
hand, most probably
Sophocles' editor—
has crossed it out
& in the margin
written "Economics
is fine, but what
relevance have
poets to a story
about a man who
fucks his mother?"
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