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At a glittering dinner party, with guests costumed by Soutra Gilmour as if they were gilded baubles at a Tiffany counter, Timon entertains the well-heeled, self-infatuated sycophants of Athens.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2020

“He’d circle me in great fugues of self-infatuated improv, doing voices, abruptly changing dialogue or the names of characters, forcing me to hurriedly xxxxxxx out endless lines on the Canon Typestar.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

“I mean, I knew Lee Siegel was a self-infatuated jerk, but this takes it to a new level,” tweeted John Podhoretz.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2015

Besides, they still love each other, or as much as the terminally self-infatuated can love somebody else.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2015

The first impulse of our revulsion from the self-infatuated poet is to confute him with the potent name of Aristotle, and show him his doom foreordained in the book of poetic Revelations.

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Atkins, Elizabeth