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Patricide
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PATRICIDE. One guilty of killing his father.
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Sutton Jett, regional director of the National Capital Region of the National Park Service with park guides Patricidal Williams and Patsy Sorah getting a "Sneak Preview of Spring Flowers in the National Capital Region.
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Jazz retraces his voyage, motivated by patricidal fantasies, in search of his father; it becomes his journey into blackness, an extended meditation on his capacity to value the many aspects of his complex identity--particularly his African heritage--and from there reorient his perspective according to a new paradigm.
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This shift from a patricidal to a matricidal focus is the burden of a long, convoluted chapter, called "The `Dark Legend' of Matricide," which constitutes the theoretical core of Terrible Honesty.
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