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self-admiration

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God has not been preparing the English-speaking and Teutonic peoples," declared Senator Beveridge of Indiana, "for a thousand years of nothing but vain and idle self-contemplation and self-admiration.
The narcissist's self-admiration is directly related to the mythological story that inspired the term.
He professes a sincere love for retyping, both the process ("I was trained as a sculptor, and moving the text from one place to another became as physical and as sexy as, say, carving stone") and, in a bit of Stein-like self-admiration, the result: "After it was finished, it became clear that the daily newspaper--or in this case Day--is really a great novel, filled with stories of love, jealousy, murder, competition, sex, passion, and so forth.
 
 
 
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