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The author directed our attention from competitive showoffs to the narcissistic showoffs. The narcissistic just want to be the center of the world; they don’t care about anyone else. So they have no interest in competition .He says the narcissistic showoffs would stand one their head in order to get back the decreased attention. But before that I don’t know how to understand “quote Homer in Greek”. For the explanation I know the “Homer” means two greatest western works. And the narcissistic showoffs would like to quote it in Greek. Obviously, it is a way of showoffs. It is so hard a work that I could not talk about it fluently even if in my mother language. What kinds of people could “quote Homer in Greek”? Who can do this must be well learned .I think if a person could quote Homer in Greek they don’t need to showoffs. They would naturally become the center of the attention. Even if this is not the talent willing to .I doubled the author’s attitude to this. Does he talk too aggressive?

After all the definition of narcissistic the author also gives out a small story to improve it.

A narcissistic showoff went out of the room when the attention shifted from him to others. Because he thought all the other conversations are superficial.