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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop douceur

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brought to you by narcissus You might be one if

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you email tweet links to friends who already know you

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on twitter All right check the following passage from moby

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dick herman melville I'm on a healthy boy rubbing their

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voyage grease seems everything in this and yet we're done

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Okay The speaker describes the story of narcissus in detail

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Tio what And hear the potential answers Come on herman

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melville are we talking about the sea or we talk

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about greek mythology What's the point of bringing up narcisse

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is here All right well let's move on we'll see

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is definitely not the answer Even though the moral of

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narcissus story is don't get too full of yourself We

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don't think that's Why melville's mentioning in here what would

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be the point of that to call sailor's vain Well

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depending on the size of the sailor we'd keep that

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observation to ourselves He is along the lines of option

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c and it's just as wrong Melville's illusion and narcissus

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doesn't have anything to do with the usual reasons that

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people mention the founding father of narcissism dot com eh

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Doesn't work either Narcissus story might show that we all

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need other people in our lives If we only focus

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on ourselves well we might drown in our reflections like

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narcissus did or we might just be super lonely Yeah

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well answer b gets it right According to the speaker

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justice narcissus was captivated by his own reflection which led

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to his watery death were drawn to water in an

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attempt to understand the mysteries of life and that narcisse

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is probably wasn't the best decision maker ever We've had

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our moments of vanity but we're pretty sure he went 00:01:39.99 --> [endTime] overboard literally

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