V2nd - chapter 11 - more examples - Bastardized?

[Michael Bailey]

 Mark Kohut wrote:
> Alice:
> Of course, Oedipus is, as are Stencil and Oedipa, a figure subjected
> to irony, but of different kinds. Stencil doesn't discover anything to
> render him tragic. Oedipa is still waiting to find out. Oedipus
> discovers what we know; it is at this moment (see Camus on this) that
> he is made tragic. Stencil and Oedipa are absurd, so their quests,
> like Sisyphus's are projections of a world that they give meaning to.
>
>
> Stencil discovers that History is a tragicomedy?
>

Yes!  and,hey, Stencil's fairly tragicomic himself