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Patricide Adrammelech and Sharezer murder father, Sennacherib, for Assyrian throne. [O.T.: II Kings 19:37] woman accused of butchering father and stepmother with ax (1872). [Am. Hist.: Hart, 91] killed his father at his mother’s instigation. [Br. Balladry: Edward in Benét, 302] kills father in argument not knowing his identity. [Gk. Lit.: Oedipus Rex] |
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Sutton Jett, regional director of the National Capital Region of the National Park Service with park guides Patricidal Williams and Patsy Sorah getting a "Sneak Preview of Spring Flowers in the National Capital Region. Jazz retraces his voyage, motivated by patricidal fantasies, in search of his father; it becomes his journey into blackness, an extended meditation on his capacity to value the many aspects of his complex identity--particularly his African heritage--and from there reorient his perspective according to a new paradigm. This shift from a patricidal to a matricidal focus is the burden of a long, convoluted chapter, called "The `Dark Legend' of Matricide," which constitutes the theoretical core of Terrible Honesty. |
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