and the inevitable decay thereof into animal prejudice and postmodern madness
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it's basically text in Borges' House of Asterion
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the Minotaur thinks he's the king of the labyrinth when he's actually trapped by it
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akin to the actual Minoan ritual he believes there's a "correct" way to walk the labyrinth
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which causes him to go in a big circle through the maze
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one day he makes a mistake and takes a "wrong" turn and finds the exit
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and the lack of any walls or defined paths outside terrifies him and he runs back in
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I see the Borges story as informing a lot of later references especially House of Leaves
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and House of Leaves probably inspired the modern take on Minotaur-as-hidden-unintended-meaning-in-fiction
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like say SCP-1893
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