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Jiang distinguishes good from bad writers by ontological access: bad writers make things up, while good writers are chosen and have a stronger connection to the divine.
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Bad writing
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "yeah but he could be a bad writer in which case he's making crap up okay but but how's the the"
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The student synthesis keeps Jiang's framework intact by treating bad writing as the writer's own biases and experience clouding a deeper structure that might otherwise come through.
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Jiang defines the New Yorker as bad writing because it can spend decades perfecting stylish language and theory while still signifying nothing.
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"yeah but he could be a bad writer in which case he's making crap up okay but but how's the the"
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"the writer has a different connection to the divine okay like no no no it's really simple okay if you choose to be a..."
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"No. I think other than I have to agree with the filter point, but I just think I really agree with that. It's about..."
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"...and theory. Okay. That's what the New Yorker is. That's what bad writing looks like. Okay. All right. And so, you're like, well, but,..."
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"...okay? Okay, so this is what I wrote myself. Okay, it's bad writing, it's modern prose, but you're able to compare and contrast, okay?..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Homer as the big bang of Greek civilization: empire turns writing into control, the polis turns speech into civic training, and the Iliad turns war into the...
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