The witness’s sigh of resignation and comment that he has arrived at “that point” suggest that he is now prepared to plunge over the revelatory precipice. The moment he has for years been dreading has arrived. He has always feared its necessity, and though he has done what he could to stave it off, come it has as come it must. [Dn] In this sense, the witness is much like Oidipous, who for precisely the same period of time has been doing what he could to stave off facing a necessity of which he has always known: murdering his father and marrying his mother. Avoidance is clearly no way to respond to prophecy. [Mipd]