“Halfway through
recording I had this very strong dream,” says Kimbra.
“It was about these
words: the golden echo. So I researched them and
it took me to this flower
called Narcissus Golden Echo.”
The discovery of the flower plunged her into the
Greek myth of Narcissus,
the boy who died after becoming transfixed by his own
reflection.
It also delivered her a poem with a similar message – “how to keep
beauty from vanishing away? To give beauty back” – that took root.
Last conversation between Echo and Narcissus, as recorded by P. Ovideos:
Echo - We eat our past while we wait to be eaten by our future, future, future...
Narcissus - Should we wait an hour after eating until swimming?
