peripetaeia


(noun) from ancient greek dramatic tradition, this usually comes after a great revelation (anagnorisis) has occurred, and consists of a reversal of fortunes. thus, a king who rules wisely for fifty years, then discovers that he killed his father and married his mother without knowing it, is at that point in time a partic-p-nt in a peripetaeia.
film critic 1: “i was relaxing with a few p-rn vids the other night and it turns out one of them was a gay p-rn tape that i’d shoplifted by mistake. well, guess who was starring in that gay tape?”

film critic 2: “dude, i don’t know. i don’t watch gay p-rn.”

film critic 1: “me neither, but get this: it was peter north.”

film critic 2: “no way!”

film critic 1: “i swear, it was peter north. and another guy was doing him up the b-tt and then he comes all over the schoolroom table.”

film critic 2: “well this certainly makes for a very dramatic peripetaeia, coming as it does hot on the heels of an anagnorisis.”

film critic 1: “yes, and we might even say that his latent h-m-s-xuality is his hamartia.”

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