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people who have cause to lament are also survivors. They lament their loss, but they
feel a kind of satisfaction in their own survival… they are always perfectly aware of
what the dead man’s feelings must be. He is bound to hate them, for they still have
what he has lost, which is life.”
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10 Crowds And Power, by Elias Canetti, Translated from the German by Carol Stewart, The Viking
Press, New York, 1962, p. 263.
Fig. 67.3 Expulsion from Eden, Mezzotint by John Martin, from John Milton’s Paradise Lost,
Book X1, p. 326, printer Henry Washbourne & Co., London, 1853. (Private Collection). (Photo ©
M.C. Tobias)
67 True Narcissism
people who have cause to lament are also survivors. They lament their loss, but they
feel a kind of satisfaction in their own survival… they are always perfectly aware of
what the dead man’s feelings must be. He is bound to hate them, for they still have
what he has lost, which is life.”
10
10 Crowds And Power, by Elias Canetti, Translated from the German by Carol Stewart, The Viking
Press, New York, 1962, p. 263.
Fig. 67.3 Expulsion from Eden, Mezzotint by John Martin, from John Milton’s Paradise Lost,
Book X1, p. 326, printer Henry Washbourne & Co., London, 1853. (Private Collection). (Photo ©
M.C. Tobias)
67 True Narcissism