Cursing the perpetrator Oidipous curses himself. Even as he manifests confidence in his own capacity to meet all contingencies (“whether he escaped attention working on his own or joined by others”), he continues to give expression to the inversion being worked by the god noted in mappings 144 and 145. Yet because it continues to escape his notice that he himself on at least one occasion did kill a man whose identity he did not know, the audience sees him as confident, committed, and persistent as well as uncomprehending, self-righteous, and murderous–a breathtaking contradiction. [Apamu] [Apcmu] [Md] [Mpea]