col49 2 pt2 Echo and Narcissus

[jbor]

I think Oedipa plays Echo to Narcissus with most, if not all of the men in
the novel.

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        "Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
                    Within thy airy shell
                By slow Meander's margent green,
              And in the violet-embroidered vale
                Where the lovelorn nightingale
          Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well:
           Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair
                That likest thy Narcissus are?"

                        John Milton (1608-1674), 'Comus'

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