Once More Around the Oedipa Tangle

[Mark Kohut]

Lionel Trilling has an essay on Oedipus Rex in his Prefaces
to Literature that might be described as Back to Basics 101.

He focuses on the horror of it as Oedipus ends tragically even
though he tried like hell to AVOID doing anything to tempt fate.
Trilling sees this as Sophocles understanding of the darkest, uncontrollable
forces in life which 

led me to think of Oedius' descendant down the agaes, Oedipa, who spends
her book learning of the existence of the darkest, mysterious, unstoppable
forces in history?