Article: INCEST TAKES THE LEAD IN NEW CROP OF BOOKS AND MOVIES.(L.A. LIFE)

Byline: Karen De Witt The New York Times

Oedipus blinded himself when he learned that he had slept with his mother. Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe's much-wed 18th-century heroine, rejects happiness when she discovers that her third husband is her brother. The lovers of D.W. Griffith's ``A Baby's Shoe'' become priest and nun upon learning that they are siblings.

That was in 1910. In 1996, the reunited lovers of John Sayles' ``Lone Star,'' after finding out that they have the same father, continue their affair.

If a dozen movies, television dramas and memoirs are any indication, incest, one of humanity's last taboos, is taboo no longer. Incest is ...

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