While it is clear that Oidipous has undergone a change, it is not clear what it might be, for he declines to express himself on this matter, preferring rather to push ahead with his own investigation: he wishes for Iokaste to describe Laios in terms of his build and age. Apparently he wants to confirm what the crime’s location and timing have already indicated by checking against additional details in his memory. Indeed, having momentarily lost his bearings and acknowledged Zeus’s influence, Oidipous seems now to have resumed his methodical procedure. Well-established habits quickly reassert themselves; he takes charge once more, again he acts according to his own best judgment, and he turns to the application of critical pressure upon the inference that he is caught up in a project directed by a god. The realization that he is very likely to have killed Laios appears to have had no effect upon the manner in which he conducts his investigation. His attentions have not shifted to the conjunction of prophecies and so he has not made the inference that Laios was his father and Iokaste his mother. In managing to restore customary patterns of thought and action he has yet again veered away from discovery of the truth. [Md] [Mpei]