If Oidipous is impatient with the herdsman’s minimal responses, he does not show it, but rather proceeds patiently and persistently to wring from his witness one bit of information at a time. Now he asks about the individual and the house, questions to which the audience can easily supply answers: Iokaste is the person from whom the slave received the infant and the house from which the infant was brought is the one before which they now stand. Iokaste now has gone back in as she did then, and if then she went in to rejoin Laios, now she may again be on her way to join him. Oidipous stands now with the two shepherds; the constellation of relations is that which it was when “this man” gave “this man” to “this man.” The movements, however, are now running in reverse. Every move has been choreographed to return Oidipous to himself, but still he does not see it. The entire world around him has been carefully constructed for his instruction, yet he remains aware only of the efforts he believes he controls and directs. The audience, however, must marvel at the vast superiority of the god’s capacity to construct, choreograph, speak, and act. [Mpei] [Aj] [Apa] [Apc]