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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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