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Sphinx Monologue
Today I pulled into Thebes and ran into the great Sphinx. The sphinx was terrorizing the town with her riddle. If I could only answer her riddle, “What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three in the evening?” I was able to answer the riddle that nobody else could. The sphinx went over the cliff, therefore killing her. Today I became the King of Thebes. And also I married an attractive woman. What a bizarre way of ending a year that started out with me being a killer! Just so happened their king mysteriously disappeared, so the townspeople decided to show me their gratitude by giving me the throne. They also gave me their queens’ hand in marriage, which makes me the King of Thebes. Cool, right? Who
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