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War imposes reality through force and obedience, while speech imposes reality through words, beauty, and truth.
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War imposes reality through force and obedience, while speech imposes reality through words, beauty, and truth.
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Jiang glosses the 'enchanted cord' as a person's connection to the divine, which beautiful diction or metaphor can touch.
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Jiang says poetry makes immortal what is best and most beautiful in the world by redeeming the visitations of divinity in human beings from decay.
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Poetic beauty is evidence of truth: listeners know something is true because it is beautiful and because it speaks to them.
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Crazy Jane’s answer is read as Frankist because fair and foul require each other and bodily lowliness produces knowledge and pride.
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Asha means delighting in the world's beauty and celebrating life because Ahura Mazda is forgiving, loving, and compassionate.
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Virgil's love model begins with beauty provoking animal response, then imagination turns the beloved into a fantasy that can be controlled and possessed.
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Jiang defines literature as the shaping of memory so beautifully that it is implanted in others' minds for centuries and inspires achievement.
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"...Okay? But through words. Okay? So, rather than through force, through beauty and through truth, you're trying to create a new reality that others..."
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"varsa. You are only a spirit of protecting you, the explanation, the power, your gift, or what you call wisdom and neglected your humanity...."
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"So you have all these past lives in you that you don't remember. But a certain word, a certain poem will reignite, re -enaminate,..."
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"Okay? So the story of Achilles, right? Where Achilles, he's stuck in this situation. He wants Agamemnon to apologize so that he can go..."
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"Because it speaks to you. Okay? Do you understand? So when Homer is going around, because this is an illiterate culture, right? There's no..."
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"Fair and foul are near of kin. And fair needs foul, I cried. My friends are gone, but that's a truth. Nor grave nor..."
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"...have good about evil. You cannot have ugliness, you cannot have beauty about ugliness. Okay? So, and this is something that I've learned because..."
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"But it doesn't affect to be so delicate. We are all of us fine sumter asses and she asses. Okay? What we have in..."
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"...way to survive this world of evil is to recognize that beauty is everywhere around us. And that is our responsibility to discover this..."
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"...love to respond to everything that pleases just as soon as beauty wakens it to act okay so the first thing we have to..."
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"...love it's nature that joins a soul in you anew for beauty okay you must possess her you will do you would do everything..."
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"He sees the people happy in Uruk, and he realizes this is what immortality is. Immortality is not living forever. Immortality is to be..."
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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A source-grounded reading of Zarathustra as the prophet who turns truth into a life-practice: the universe is conscious, evil is the field where virtue becomes real, organized religion is the priestly capture of fire,...
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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