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Allusion

Joyce's difficulty, in Jiang's reading, comes from musical style and dense allusion: readers must have read and experienced what Joyce did in order to understand him.

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Literary diagnosis in the 2025-06-04 lecture.

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Joyce's difficulty, in Jiang's reading, comes from musical style and dense allusion: readers must have read and experienced what Joyce did in order to understand him.

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Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything (Re-upload AUDIO FIXED -- Thanks to Gabriel Bessa)

Transcript

"...And everything that he writes, in every sentence, there are multiple allusions and references to other books. Okay? So you must have read what..."

The Poem That Makes a Robot

2026-03-25, day precision · Great Books #8: The Poetry of Empire

Transcript

"...the pledge when sealed with our right hands, this is an allusion, of course, to, um, right here, okay? This is an allusion, of..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

Transcript

"...And everything that he writes, in every sentence, there are multiple allusions and references to other books. Okay. So you must have read what..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

Transcript

"It's self -referential. Okay. It just has a lot of allusions and references. But you actually don't know what the meaning is. Like what..."

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