author: Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
content: People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.
  Sophocles' Oedipus Rex being a great example. Oedipus is drawn into tragedy not
  because of laziness or stupidity, but because of his courage and honesty. So an
  inevitable irony results.
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