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Narcissus

The Greek root of "Narcissus" is *narkē*, numbness..

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The Greek root of "Narcissus" is *narkē*, numbness.

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Disputed
"Narcissus mistakes his image in the pool because the extension of himself in the water has "numbed his perceptions until he became the servomechanism of his own extended or repeated image.""
Asserted by Marshall McLuhan · stance: pro
The evidence on file mostly supports this, but it's still someone's claim, not a settled fact.
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