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He's using a lot of verbs, right? Which says that this thing is in motion, right? You can see how they're moving. Tilled, sorry, tilled for the third time, okay? So you can imagine..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "segment_id": "seg-0029", "start": 1406.6, "end": 1407.02, "time_label": "23:26", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Keep on going." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0031", "segment_id": "seg-0031", "start": 1454.04, "end": 1520.15, "time_label": "24:14", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay, so we said that this shield of Achilles, it's actually the soul of Achilles, okay? What his consciousness is, what is inside him. And what this is, ultimately, it's a universe unto itself, right? 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How can we explain in China, Mao Zedong..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0040" ], "kind": "monologue", "summary": "Jiang stages the meeting of Priam and Achilles as the greatest battle in the Iliad and in human history because enemies who hate each other must confront one another without weapons.", "speaker_attribution": "Jiang classroom lecture.", "confidence": "high", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0040", "segment_id": "seg-0040", "start": 2045.23, "end": 2107.45, "time_label": "34:05", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "And so everyone agrees, both the Greeks and Trojans agree, we are going to pretend that we don't see them meeting, okay? Does that make sense? Do you guys understand what's happening? All right, okay. 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I put to lips the hands of the man who killed myself. Okay." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0062" ], "note": "ASR likely misrenders Andromache as 'Adramachy'; the context is Hector's wife at the Trojan lament.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0062", "segment_id": "seg-0062", "start": 2913.88, "end": 2941.68, "time_label": "48:33", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "But it ends from the perspective of the Trojans, okay? It ends with Priam getting back Hector's body, taking it back to Troy and everyone in Troy coming to see the body and crying, okay? Especially the wife of Hector, A..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0068" ], "note": "The contemporary Gaza analogy is Jiang's classroom comparison; downstream public read should preserve chronology and avoid expanding beyond the transcript.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-dkzr5a8illa@transcript:v1#seg-0068", "segment_id": "seg-0068", "start": 3083, "end": 3169.88, "time_label": "51:23", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "city will be sacked, your husband will be killed, your children will be murdered, and you'll be put on a ship to be enslaved while you watch your city burn, okay? Think about the power of that, okay? Think about what's..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] } ] }