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Many of the World's buyers see their ship as a way to simplify luxurious lives. Richard Reed of Scottsdale, Ariz., who made his wealth from 300 karate schools and then founded a company that provides technology for health-club collection services, owned a 52-ft. yacht, the Narcissus, for 10 years. "I really fell in love with the sea," he says, "but I spent all this money, and I was out doing all this work while the guests sat around having a good time." He plans to combine work and play aboard ship, keeping up through the Internet, which...
...read your informative article "Never Too Buff," about increased testosterone use by men [HEALTH, April 24]. You noted the new book The Adonis Complex, which reveals men's obsession with their body image. Maybe the authors should consider changing the title to The Narcissus Complex. Muscles alone maketh not the man. BARRY SWINDLES Auckland...
...converse with such as cannot be angry, and with the Caspian Sea never ebb and flow." But Fuller set up sensible rules, such as this: "Take heed of doing irrevocable acts in thy passion... Samson's hair grew again, but not his eyes." He acknowledged the disfigurement: "Had Narcissus himself seen his own face when he had been angry, he could never have fallen in love with himself...
Norfleet's "Frolic" is also cheerful, while "Who's the Fairest of Them All" provides witty commentary not only on the aesthetics of insects (which not all of us find as attractive, as, say, horses or bunnies) and our own human vanity through the Narcissus allegory but on the inherent vanity in artistic expression as well. The photograph is also a display of Norfleet's artistic ingenuity, as it integrates both the insect and its mirror image seamlessly. Later in the book, "Of Course We Prayed" presents a similar commentary, as Norfleet uses praying mantises as a clever...
...lightsaber, so he can someday give it to Luke? Such cloyingly nostalgiac satisfactions pale compared to Luke's arcanely scored hatred for Vader and to Han's martyr-ship in the carbonite chamber! The satisfactions of a prequel turn the the Star Wars universe into an introvert, a narcissus...