COL49 Group Read - Echo and Narcissus

[David Morris]

In terms of the yin/yang of masculinity and femininity, This is an
understandable pairing.

“The Receptive” and “The Creative” are the two primary trigrams of the I
Ching.  Here, Narcissus spews forth self-praise into the world, and it is
met with a purest reception possible: perfect mirroring of praise.  But the
problem is that the input and the feedback are a closed loop, so ENTROPY is
inevitable.

David Morris

On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 3:49 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Echo and Narcissus
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> Echo is forever, attempting to connect to her object of love. But she is
> cursed, gagged, able only to repeat the last words spoken by her lover.
> And Narcissus cannot see her as she speaks, captured himself with his own
> image.  And hearing only his own words of praise, he is locked in a sensory
> chamber, away from all troubles, LIFE, forever.
>
> At one level, Oedipa is Echo, and Metz is Narcissus.  But it should be
> noted that BOTH of the participants are bound, restrained, locked away from
> the world *LIFE* that continues around and despite them. They are in a
> contract for mutual destruction. So the Echo Court playground is full of
> co-dependents.
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> But it might be noted that Echo is essentially providing Narcissus a
> continuous flow of heroin.  She could stop speaking to him, removing the
> chain of herself from Narcissus.
>
> Not sure where this is going.
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> David Morris
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