And you say they talk Jocasta out of suicide and Oedipus out of blinding himself?

'And you say they talk Jocasta out of suicide and Oedipus out of blinding himself?'

'Just in the nick of time. She's slipped the rope around her neck and he's got hold of two pins. But the boy and girl from Pala tell them not to be silly. After all it was an accident. He didn't know the old man was his father. And anyhow the old man began it, hit him over the head, and that made Oedipus lose his temper... And when they made him a king, he had to marry the old queen. She was really his mother; but neither of them knew it. And of course all they had to do when they did find out was to stop being married. The stuff about marrying his mother being the reason why everyone had to die of a virus - all that was just nonsense just made up by a  lot of poor stupid people who din't know any better.'

A. Huxley, Island (1962), 253