11.11.2008

A Riddle for the Me Generation

A riddle for all you who love Twitter type and Facebook hype:

What relation to the Me Generation
Shares Narcissus that should warn us
Of vain-glory and sin's story?


ON AN UGLY FELLOW, by William Cowper

"Beware, my friend, of crystal brook
Or fountain, lest that hideous hook,
Thy nose, thou chance to see;
Narcissus' fate would then be thine,
And self-detested thou would'st pine,
As self-enamoured he."

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