When a preening guest approaches the mirror, the surface illuminates to reveal tiny, iridescent Botox bottles with preserved narcissus flowers.

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The myth of Narcissus, for example, tells of the beautiful young man whose problem was not that he loved himself but that he couldn't love himself.

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And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned.

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