[7] The authorities include St. Jerome, Clement of Alexandria, Diogenes Laertius, Quintus Curtius; cf. Krappe. John Fyler relates incest to the romance rhetorical tropes of doubling and repetition, via their shared analogous concern with same and other, as well as their effect of forcing decisions about identity and discrimination. He argues that the tale shows that "reintegration—the quest of romance—is not fully achievable, that the other finally resists integration with the self" ("Domesticating the Exotic," 12).