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one: “Come!”. Echo answers back: “Come…come…” and takes a
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step forward to Narcissus, getting out of her cover. Narcissus, seeing
Echo, turns away from her in disgust and says “Not so, I will die
before I give you power over me” Echo, helpless, answers, “…I give
you power over me…” Although Echo could somehow express her
feelings to her lover, Narcissus was already gone (Hamilton, 91).
After this, Nemesis, the Goddess of retribution, hears about the
ungodly pride of Narcissus and curses him with these words:
“May he who loves not others love himself.” And thus, Narcissus
gets a punishment worthy of his great hubris in which he
would fall in love with himself and no one other than himself.
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