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He looks kinda old in this painting. According to Ovid, Narcissus died when he was 16. This guy doesn’t look like a 16 year old child, he looks like a grown adult.

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Chronic onliner and unhinged ERPer wants the half-naked person in the painting to be a minor, more news at 11.

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Drag questions the decision to draw a half naked child at all. John Woodrow Kelley has some explaining to do.

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Naked people are always carrying around towels for startegic draping.

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he cute

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He thinks so, too

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You can say that again.

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Narcissus? I thought it was about me.

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I found he was was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1952. But I can’t find a date for the painting.

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Nah man, Narcissus was born in Thespiae in Boeotia

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the ol’ reddit-a-roo

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