The field opens to bare the enigmatic determine of the Sphinx (a textual content in her personal right), who produces the ultimate point of textuality—the phrases Capital, hold up, and physique: "Inscribed at the lid of the field have been the phrases: 'Anatomy is not any Longer future' and within, whilst she opened it, she stumbled on the determine of the Greek Sphinx with complete breasts and feathery wings. She lifted it up out of the field to examine it extra heavily. As she did so, it looked as if it would her that its lips moved and it spoke a couple of words in a language which she couldn't comprehend, apart from 3 phrases which have been repeated a number of occasions: 'Capital,' 'Delay' and 'Body. ' She changed it within the field and closed the lid. She may well consider her middle beat. … She felt giddy with good fortune, as if, after laboring day-by-day to avoid a relapse into her pristine humanity, she had eventually obtained what she sought after. She shuddered. all of sudden she heard a voice, very quiet, coming from the field, the voice of the Sphinx, growing to be louder, until eventually she may perhaps listen it sincerely, compellingly, and she or he knew that it had by no means been solely silent and that she had heard it prior to, all her lifestyles, because she first understood that she was once a lady! " This a part of the voice-off narration additional destabilizes the pronoun she, that is now prolonged to incorporate not just Louise and Anna, yet an nameless girl personality. due to this pronominal slippage, the "she" who reads the inscription at the lid, opens the field, and listens to the Sphinx's phrases, turns out to incorporate the 1st characters in addition to the 3rd, and to be able to describe a that's in some way part of lady subjectivity instead of an remoted incident. This impact is bolstered while the voice-off reverts to the remembering "she," and her makes an attempt to remember the main points of the forgotten textual content. What had appeared a textual reminiscence by surprise connects in detail with Anna's childish thoughts, and the excellence among the 3 girls thoroughly evaporates ("The rhythm of the sentence used to be now not really correct and he or she felt definite there has been a few specific she had forgotten. … might she have recognized the language which the Sphinx spoke? The extra she attempted to recollect, the extra she stumbled on her brain wandering, mislaying the Page 139 thread of logical reconstruction and returning to pictures from her personal childhood"). despite the fact that, whilst it insists upon the commonality of this maternal legacy—a legacy which, i'd argue, is exactly the adverse Oedipus complex—Riddles is cautious to emphasize its cultural foundation. There should be no less assailable denial of organic determinism than the statement that "Anatomy isn't any Longer Destiny," in particular while that statement is buttressed through photos of age-defying mummies. Even the instantly following acrobatic series, with its obvious "return" to the physique, deals an indication now not of corporeal legislation and bounds yet of the way to violate and exceed them. The acrobats are "bodies at paintings, expending their hard work strength upon its personal material," instead of upon the duty of replica. also they are officially denatured, showing to us first as grainy black-and-white figures, after which as optically revealed two-color figures.