![]() Meeting her made him wish, for the first time in his life, that he could remain in one place. ![]() ![]() When he wakes, he looks forward to the village he will reach in four days where, the year before, he met a girl, the daughter of a merchant. In Part One of the novel, Santiago passes the night with his flock of sheep in an abandoned church. “What a lovely story,” the alchemist thinks. However, the lake reveals that, actually, it’s weeping because it misses being able to admire its own beautiful reflection in Narcissus’s eyes. The lake is weeping, and the goddess assumes that the lake misses Narcissus’s beauty. ![]() In this version of the story, the goddess of the forest encounters the lake in which Narcissus drowned. In the Prologue, the alchemist reads a story about Narcissus-a youth so fascinated by his own beautiful reflection that he falls into a lake and drowns. ![]()
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