Read the following passage spoken by oedipus and answer the question. listen to me, and do not be afraid— for this disease infects no one but me. why is “disease” a good metaphor here? because it makes us sick it suggests something that is horrible and incurable it suggests he is alone and blind because thebes is suffering from the black plague

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed