 | Joseph Rosenbloom - 2007 - Liczba stron: 416
...counted the same houses going and coming. How many months have twenty-eight days? All of them. What walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening? Man. He goes on all fours as a baby, on two feet when he is grown, and uses a cane in old age. (This... | |
 | Sidney Saylor Farr - 2007 - Liczba stron: 231
...Appalachia is the Riddle of the Sphinx, which Oedipus answered in order to become King of Thebes. What goes on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the afternoon? Answer: A human being. In the mountains the most suggestive riddles— "bad" riddles with... | |
 | Galit Hasan-Rokem, David Dean Shulman - 1996 - Liczba stron: 329
...Why didn't I recognize my mother?' 'You gave the wrong answer', she said. 'When I asked, What walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon and three in the evening, you answered, Man. You didn't say anything about Woman'. 'When you say Man', said Oedipus, 'you include... | |
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You gave the wrong answer,' said the sphinx. 'But that was what made everything possible,' said Oedipus. 'No.' she said. 'When I asked, what walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening, you answered Man. You didn't say anything... 
